Pattern and Repetition @ Site: Brooklyn
An Online Exhibition Juried by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy December 23, 2021-January 23, 2022 *Extended to February 25! Pattern and Repetition features works by twenty-six artists employing various materials, including fiber, paper, clay, wood, mixed media, and video, that together quilt a rich picture of the versatility of patterning as an artistic strategy. Although most overtly used in clothing and home decor, patterns are everywhere, even nature. Inhabiting a spectrum, they can be minimal, complex, muted, bold, precise, organic, and range widely in scale. There are many well-known patterns, such as plaid and houndstooth. However, with only a few gestures made in sequence, a new pattern is born, intrinsically intertwining with repetition. It is a decorative technique that allows for maximum impact through a straightforward approach. Many patterns also hold cultural and historical significance worldwide, from Islamic sacred geometry to Scottish kilts and Acoma pottery. Repetition within a pattern establishes a flow that fosters balance and order, yet ironically, it can create a disorienting or maddening chaos if taken a step too far. This exhibition underscores the inherently repetitive nature of artistic labor, from cutting pieces of paper and puzzling them back together to craft a new image to building a structure by coiling clay or methodically applying droplets of glaze. Other examples include painstakingly embroidering a photograph, turning wood on a lathe, weaving a textile, and amassing found objects. Exhibiting Artists: John Allen, Anais Öst, Greg Bahr, Hannah Barnes, Karen Benton, Kristy Bishop, Nancy Brooks-Siebert, Keith Buswell Maryalice Carroll, Matthew Conradt, Scott DeWeese, Barbara Ellmann, Catalina Escallon Rosselli, Craig Hartenberger, Erin Juliana, Toby Kaufmann-Buhler, Minah Kim, Julie Kornblum, Lucy Li, Emily Manning-Mingle, Patricia Miranda, Natalie Obermaier, Alisha Potter, Eva Tellier, Flora Wilds, Celeste Wilson Images: Top Left: Flora Wilds, bikini quilt ; Top Right: Emily Manning-Mingle, and it was all okay; Bottom Left: Julie Kornblum, Plastic in the Oceans Bottom Right: Patricia Miranda, Enwrapped in arms enfolding; I
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December 1 - 19, 2020 450 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA 02118 Reception: Friday, Dec 3, 6-8 pm Gallery Hours: Wed.-Sun. 12-5pm Image: Emily Manning-Mingle, Polka Dot Reflection, oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches, 2016 What's Next
I: An Intimate Reflection @ Emerson Contemporary November 17-December 13, 2021 25 Avery Street, Boston, MA 02111 I: An Intimate Reflection is a multimedia exhibition ranging in paintings, fabrics, sculpture, and installations. These works are informed by the most intimate of themes – the human experience. In celebrating these pieces, diverse perspectives of identity emerge, evoking questions on culture, class, race and gender. The selected works intersect to speak with one another on the multiplicity of experiences, attitudes, and bodies. Completed in an array of styles ranging from abstract to conceptual, from figurative to natural, this body of work echoes the complexities of our individual identities. Thematically, the artists address oppression, marginalization and forced assimilation in order to persevere, analyze and reconfigure structures of cultural hegemony. These pieces can be tools for evoking new emotions to consider subjective differences in intersectional approaches, as well as means for exploring how implicit biases may be challenged or fostered for change. Objects are obscured, enlarged, exaggerated and adapted into bold authenticity with compelling internal and external realities. By providing expressive autobiographical and philosophical approaches, the artists reveal the vulnerability of producing art in order to reclaim their identity and help others do the same. Gallery Hours: Wed.-Sun. 12-7pm For our second silkscreen assignment, we were challenged to create a poster. A poster? I had no idea what to make a poster about. I talked to my professor and he suggested I make a poster for my upcoming two-person show, Middle Ground, with my friend Benjamin Hawley. The poster is a limited-edition 15-layer screen print that combines imagery from both of our bodies of work. The image on the left is a rough sketch of the initial design for the poster. Using a photograph of one of Benjamin's prints, I collaged a photo of one of the rocks from my collection on top of his bold shadow shape. After testing out multiple designs for the text of the poster, I felt ready to print. I started with a solid rectangle of sea foam green ink, then taped the screen and printed a transparent layer of peach over the top half. Next, I began printing the layers of the rock by using screen filler to block out sections of the rock and print them with increasingly dark grays. The image on the right shows what the print looks like after about ten layers of ink! The image above shows how I planned the final layer of the rock portion of the poster. I blocked out everything but the darkest values, then printed the exposed areas over the previous layers. I used a piece of tracing paper to help me understand which layers to block out with screen filler and which layers to leave empty. After printing all the imagery, I created a screen of the text for the poster. First, I coated the screen with bright pink emulsion and let it try. Then, I printed the text for the poster onto two pieces of mylar, and taped the mylar prints on top of each other so that they would be opaque enough to block out light. Next, I burned the text onto my screen. To print it, I taped off one section at a time and printed each part of the text in a different color.
I'm so proud of this print and the collaboration and hard work that has gone into my two-person show with Benjamin! |
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