CARMON COLANGELO: Big Bang to Big Melt
Sandra Marchewa: Work (Project Room)
Kathryn Neale: Recent Paintings (Front Room)
Eleanor Dubinsky: New Videos (New Media Room)
SAVE THE DATE: Gallery Talk with Carmon Colangelo and a KETC-TV Channel 9 Documentary at the gallery, on Saturday, January 10 at 4:30 p.m.
Carmon Colangelo's new exhibition explores ideas about the creation of the universe and man-made changes in the in the environment-from the Big Bang to the Big Melt. This paradoxical relationship expands on Colangelo's investigation of the biological aspects of evolution and takes a closer look at the physical environment. His imagery presents a playful odyssey that references the meta-narratives of art history and natural history by juxtaposing utopian ideals of modernism with the contingent aesthetics of surrealism and conceptual art. His taxonomy ranges from primitive organisms to bears and rhinoceros to other more bizarre and ambiguous creatures. The animals function in or independently from architectonic forms and urban landscapes, producing a vivid, chimerical vision. Colangelo's works push the physical and haptic qualities of the print, using new methods and transformative materials such as wax and iridescent inks. This new series was created in collaboration with master printer Dennis O'Neil at the Hand Print Workshop International in Washington D.C., a studio dedicated to innovative printmaking. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Paul Krainak accompanies the exhibition.
In the Project Room, Sandra Marchewa is presenting a series of new works titled Work that explore constant and dichotomous battle without the comfort of gray area. The space reveals a struggle between content and technique, good and bad, progress and destruction, love and hate, organic nature and synthetic process. In the Front Room, Kathryn Neale's new series, endeavors to reinterpret the landscape of painting by combining formal abstraction with graphic aesthetics. The balance between control and spontaneity, as well as the formal and casual application of paint is something pervades her work. In the New Media Room, multidisciplinary artist Eleanor Dubinsky premieres two single-channel videos titled Save Coney Island and Slow Body. "Save Coney Island" features interviews with vendors, tour guides and cultural preservationists, footage sequences of locals and tourists passing time on the Coney Island boardwalk and vendors and visitors selling and buying rides and games.
Press Release (PDF)
Essay (PDF)
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