ON VIEW
05 JUN 08: Using It Up
RABBITHOLESTUDIO
Using It Up
works by David Allyn, Zane Claverie, Quinn Cory, Shawn Gilheeney
OPENING RECEPTION 5-9p
THU 05 JUN 08
Wed + Fri 6-8p and by appointment until 30 JUN 08
Through the month of June, the Rabbit Hole gallery will host four emerging artists from Providence, RI. The show is curated by JohnJ McGurk and showcases the work of artists working in a wide range of styles and mediums.
The city of Providence is small and home to a large population of artists. The work of the represented artists is varied, yet maintains a connection to the language of Providence. With the use of found objects and found imagery, the art creates a comprehensible vernacular of its time.
Shawn Gilheeney's work brings focus to the decaying industrial lands. His art is based on the urban experience, creating street art, paintings, and prints involving the themes of nomadic life, decay, brick, and electricity. In his paintings he creates life where it has been lost, intrigue where there are only memories.
Zane Claverie uses found materials to make large scale cut and paste collage. Each work varies in theme and material--old and new-- to open a window into many years of pictorial history, graphic design, and illustration.
Quinn Corey's new work is challenging and dynamic. He is moving away from the wall to create assemblages from detritus found in the streets and lost spaces of Providence.
David Allyn creates ceramic tile relief of color and imagery. Using decals and porcelain, Allyn comments on issues of gentrification and consumerism. By marrying fine art and fine craft, his relief sculptures offer a fresh vision of our contemporary age.
The streets of Providence are lined with old factories and buildings in various states of decay and rehabilitation. It is an evolving testament to the industrial revolution, and more recently, the condominium and urban renewal extravaganza. Each of these artists has absorbed our postindustrial landscape, and has translated it into art sustained by the waste of it.
01 MAY 08: Memorandum
RABBITHOLESTUDIO presents "Memorandum", a group show curated by Marcie Paper.
01 MAY – 01 JUN 2008
Magalie Guérin / Marcie Paper / Sunny Payson / Sara Pedigo
OPENING RECEPTION
THURSDAY 01 MAY 5 - 9 PM
Wed + Fri 6-8p and by appointment until 01 JUN 08
In the ballpoint drawings of Magalie Guérin, portraiture collides with geometry. Obsessive blue tinted worlds etched into antique paper engage us intimately as we follow faces and pattern. We triangulate to discover what is present within Guérin's cropped presentation: it is between the artist, her history, and the geometric movement of memory.
Marcie Paper abstracts the traditional diary into delicate and personal hieroglyphics, layering paint and sanding some away as each day passes, becoming a record of being. Occasional representation appears to us out of sheer color, a bird, a highway cloverleaf; these shapes and symbols lead us into Paper's daily existence, and the fulcrum between now and 6 minutes ago, what takes flight and what remains.
Using images in advertising from the 1960's and earlier, Sunny Payson investigates the identity of America through the persistent history of spending in our culture. Painting models and products of an era before her time, Payson recreates a world of which she has no memory.
Sara Pedigo's work hovers between presence and loss. Fixing time by drawing and painting selected moments from her family album, Pedigo allows us to witness a mirrored record of her past, extending the life of a photographic memory into a sustained and poignant experience of reconnection. Another mirror appears as we recall our own familial relationships, flashbulb-illuminated in our minds.
03 APR 08: Secret Lives
RABBITHOLESTUDIO
SECRET LIVES
03 APR – 29 APR 2008
works by
Ebru Yildiz
Manu Romano
Maria Kenny
Liz Schnore
video by
Mitchell King
OPENING RECEPTION 5-9p
THU 03 APR 08
Wed-Fri 6-8p and by appointment until 29 APR 08
Four women, four cameras, four unique perspectives on humanity. Every artist struggles with forming an idea of how to project her vision through her art. This exhibit represents four reflections of the dark beauty of the human form.
Liz Schnore
Burlesque in the 21st century, who would have thought this art form would endure. All the joy and carefree sexuality of a bygone era. This is my study of the complexity of beauty and humanity.
Manu Romano
I am incapable to explain in words the odd notions, mental twists, unusual or eccentric ideas that populate my mind. But I can translate them into unique images using my camera.
Ebru Yildiz
I find people fascinating and beautiful. The photos I make of them have a tendency to turn out really dark and strange in some way. I think I believe that the really contrasted and nightly images of people reveal more about their personalities. It is almost as if people become more of themselves in the dark. Isolated from everything else, just being themselves.
Maria Kenny
Skin. Intimate Trespassers. Our skin bears traces of our inner lives and memory is what makes our lives, it’s time and place, our mythology. I believe our body has a memory stitch and that our bodies never lie, our thoughts are embedded in our bodies by the traces of skin we leave on our pillow at night. This exhibition is an exploration of those thoughts. There’s a dress on my body.