We Welcome You to a Collection...
Opening Reception:
January 8, 2010
5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
1027 Ridge Ave, Second Floor
Philadelphia, PA, 19123
Gallery Hours: January 8-22nd
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday
... of Collections created by recent Tyler School of Art graduates, Jenna Eagan, Sarah Kodish-Eskind, Ashley Ivonne Limes, and Christina Smith. Sharing common ground as Printmakers, each artist gives variation to the method.
Jenna Eagan, Disposable
Eagan's textiles and wearable forms explore issues of warfare, and suggest the importance of adornment in war, and its use to intimidate and manipulate. Simultaneously, she hints at how we as civilians use clothing in a similar fashion. Her subjects include soldiers and warriors from varying war eras, such as Native Americans and colonial generals. Her etchings and screen prints on leather, and hand dyed natural fabrics make the materials she prints on just as important as the imagery used. She believes the organic nature of the materials to be an important part of the ephemeral nature of our "domestic armor". Her collection focuses on a series of vests, banners, and large scale prints on paper.
Sarah Kodish-Eskind, With You In Mind
With You In Mind is a series of documentary photographs. They show custom-designed temporary tattoos applied to the bodies of individuals who participated in a conversation process. The conversations explored people's personal symbols and ideas, their free associations. Sarah Kodish-Eskind designed and applied the drawings that represent these moments of conversation, the symbols we attach to our lives. They mimic the boldness of a real tattoo, but are really just a momentary reveal. There is an innate curiosity beneath this work: How do people describe the universal concepts of temporality and permanence in their lives? Conversation is temporary - how do you make it a little more permanent?
Ashley Ivonne Limes, Held
Limes' series of large scale silk screens and gouache painted banners focus on her longing to communicate a connection between herself and her environment. Influenced by the multi perspectival landscapes of traditional Japanese scrolls, the artist invents her own organizational systems of color and form to express her version of the world around her. Within this alternate perspective we encounter scenes and arrangements that the artist has imagined. Through these scenes and scapes, Limes seeks to remind us of what holds us together. She does this by focusing on three principle themes - the rock, the stick, and the rope - whose symbolic value evolve throughout the development of the series.
Christina Smith, The Winged Rabbit
Smith's series explores the relation of femininity and fertility in religious imagery and comments on the redundant nature of certain styles, such as the dramatic arabesque and romantically themed designs used during the Rococo era. She accomplished this through the primary method of silkscreening on fabric, adding subtle accents with needle and thread. The prints are then transformed into three dimensional trompe l'oeil structures, such as her canopy piece where one can lay on a floor of handmade and printed pillows to gaze up at playful winged creatures. The show focuses on a collection of various prints featuring winged rabbits and rabbit eared cherubs, as well as a small collection of assembled sculptures.
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