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TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE
MEGAN CUMP
THOMAS DOYLE
KATE GILMORE
NICK LENKER
KYMIA NAWABI
BRIE RUAIS
SUZANNE SATTLER
JENNIFER SULLIVAN
BRYAN ZANISNIK
CURATED BY JOHN EVERETT DAQUINO
Nine contemporary artists mix elements of tragedy and comedy together in order to reflect upon the absurdity of the human condition and what it means to live in an increasingly incomprehensible world. Though works of this nature may be personal and at times fantastical, they are each able to spotlight something that is universally human.
TRANSFORMERS: THE ART OF ASSEMBLAGE
NATASHA COHEN
SHIELA HALE
LUCY KRUPENYE
CURATED BY J. PINDYCK MILLER
presented in conjunction with The Studio: An Alternative Space for Contemporary Art
Three artists use detritus of modern life as well as materials from the natural world to construct autobiographical and formal narratives.
STEVEN P. PERKINS: THE TRANSPARENT TOURIST
Steven P. Perkins’ abstract paintings and prints are inspired by his international travels, including China, Thailand, Taiwan, Mexico, Japan, Europe, and across the U.S.A. His trained eyes transform tourism into transcendence.
HOME AGAIN
Jonathan Eaves
Joelle Jensen
Molly Stevens
Jonathan Schipper
Curated by James Leonard
Mar 16 –Apr 18, 2009 Four artists whose exploration of family origins and half-remembered domestic
spaces serve as central sources of inspiration.
BODY LANUGAGE
Erinn Heilman
Kathy Stecko
Jan 20 – Feb 28, 2009
Two artists consider narratives of loss and incongruence through figurative painting and sculpture.
TERRA FORMA: PERSPECTIVES IN CLAY
Oct. 13-Nov. 22, 2008
In conjunction with the county-wide
All Fired Up! Series, Terra Forma: Perspectives in Clay highlighted
the many ways that artists use clay as a uniquely expressive, sculptural
medium, including large-scale ceramic sculpture, wall works, and
installations.
GAIL
BIEDERMAN: IN AND AROUND
Gail Biederman's dense, web-like installations of yarn and thread
stretch broadly over walls and windows, referencing the regulation
and disorder of urban landscapes and the internal rhythms of the
human body.
TDC53 and TDC22007
March 17 - April 18, 2008
Two annual international juried exhibitions recognizing excellence in the use of typography, calligraphy, handlettering and other letterforms organized by The Type Directors Club in New York
THE ART OF PERSUASION
JANUARY 22 - MARCH 1, 2008
Prints by the New York Society of Etchers addressing issues of current social, political and cultural significance. Curated by Marilyn S. Kushner, Curator of Prints, Photographs and Architectural Collections at the New-York Historical Society
COMMON GROUND
Proposals for Public Art
OCTOBER 22 - NOVEMBER 22, 2007
Once exclusively associated with monuments, murals, and memorials, public art now constitutes a rich, heterogeneous practice; its evolution represents a seismic shift in contemporary art and culture.
CAROL HAMOY
Story Dresses: Tales of Immigration, Confirmation, & Participation
AUGUST 27 - OCTOBER 6, 2007
“I am inspired by personal stories that illuminate social issues, particularly ones that concern women,” writes Carol Hamoy. For years, she has collected hundreds of personal stories from women that demonstrate passion and courage in the face of economic, social, and cultural hardship. She translates these accounts into ethereal, site-specific installations that are both deftly cerebral and delicately visceral.
RECURRENTS
Monica Bock, Brad Hampton, Miranda Maher, Taney
Roniger
March 12 - April 21, 2007
How are today’s artists using seriality and recurrence to address formal or expressive concerns? Four artists use visual systems, modular units, and repetitive elements stemming from nature and technology as narrative and organizational devices.
LOOSER, SMOOTHER, FASTER
Eric Hongisto, Shoji Kato, Matt King
January 16 - February 24, 2007
Four artists explore a shifting spatial sensibility, in which information comprises physical volume and surface connotes motion.
PRIVATE & PUBLISHED
November 6 - December 2, 2006
Fourteen renowned artists whose drawings, paintings, and collages have appeared as illustrations in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Esquire, and Newsweek exhibit examples of their familiar published images alongside more personal works.
VISIONS OF NATURE
October 15-21, 2006
A week long annual show and sale kicked off with a festive Champagne Gala and followed by luncheon lectures throughout the week. The purpose of the show is not only to raise funds for The Native Plant Center, but also to expose County residents to the beauty and value of native plants.
RANDY WILLIAMS: RACE, RELIGION, AND THE LAWS OF GRAVITY
August 28 - September 7, 2006
Williams’ sculptural assemblages combine books, photos, drawings, and found objects in a rigorous geometry of history and memory. Both visually rich and highly cerebral, the works speak quietly but emphatically about the African American experience as well as the creative process and the communicative impulse.
ARTHUR SIMMS: SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS
March 19 - April 22, 2006
A humorous and melancholic dialogue between the United States and Jamaica is visible in Arthur Simms' sculptures and assemblages of cast-off materials. Electric fans, grocery carts, meat cleavers, and bottle caps populate the precariously balanced constructions; these and countless other bits of detritus find themselves meticulously tangled and bound into knotted filigrees of old twine, rusty wire or discarded fishing nets.
SPIRIT CATCHERS: LOREN EIFERMAN AND SERGIO GONZALEZ-TORNERO
January 24 - March 4, 2006
Two artists approach the animating spirit of nature from different vantage points, yet their work attains a remarkable formal discourse. The sculptor Eiferman constructs skeletal vessels from broken tree limbs; the painter and printmaker Gonzalez-Tornero distills the imagery of ancient Pacific Northwest cultures into spare, haunting compositions.
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