Inviting the Third Person - Nov. 18, 2008

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Work by Jenny Vu

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Work by Sarah Valdez

Yearn - Dec. 2, 2008

UPCOMING EVENT

TUESDAY | 2 December 2008 | 6-10pm

press release

The Crossley Gallery and Ringling College of Art & Design is pleased to host students from New College of Florida with the exhibition 'Yearn' on the 2nd of December, 2008 from 6-10pm. Yearn is a collaborative show that combines 2-D, 3-D, installation and performance in order to explore bridges, gaps, abject, collection, space, bodies, and others. New College art collective, RTRI and 3rd year and 4th year art majors worked together to create the show. This is the first in a series of three shows which hope to create dialogue between the voices of Ringing and New College artwork. Yearn invites the viewer to discover new ways of thinking about art and oneself through interactive work. We encourage discussion, exploration, and response with our pieces and hope that Yearn incites and invokes the audience to think and create.

Work by:

David Bennett
Jessica Borusky
Christine Dormoy
Jared Dyer
Angela Faustina
Barry Kaminsky
Sarah Newberry
RTRI
Persephone Thorn-Hauswirth
Kim Vorperian
Jackie Wang
Misha Wyllie

NightScapes - Nov. 21, 2008

UPCOMING EVENT

FRIDAY | 21 November 2008 | 7-10 pm

press release

The Crossley Gallery and Ringling College of Art & Design is proud to present 'Nightscapes,' with work by Photography majors Mathew Lindhart and Erin Freeland. The collaborative photography exhibition features night photographs by Freeland and Lindhardt. The show includes joint large-scale diptych images shot in the same places, at the same time; however differ from each other greatly in composition and technique. The show also includes solo images by each photographer as well as handmade pieces including Matthew Lindhardt's book "Scapes" and duratrans by Erin Freeland. All of the pieces show a clear study of time and light, giving the photographs an allure that temporarily removes you from reality.

Implacable Creature - Nov. 11, 2008

Works by Amanda Seckington and Mikaela Williams

Inflatable sculptures by Amanda Seckington

' Scientific Researchers ' by Mikaela Williams

ABLUTION - Oct. 28, 2008

Curated by William Ball

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Eric Shaw
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Sam Limbaugh

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Stead Thomas (Ringling Alum)
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William Ball (video projection)

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B. Wood

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Sam Limbaugh

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Inviting the Third Person - Nov. 18, 2008

UPCOMING EVENT

TUESDAY | 18 November 2008 | 7-10pm

press release

Crossley Gallery welcomes you to the opening night of “Inviting the Third Person”, a show produced by two junior Fine Artists Sarah Valdez and Jenny Vu. Both artists were recently featured in “Ablution”, a show curated by William Ball in collaboration with Mencia Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition their work has been represented and awarded in the 2008 Best of Ringling, as well as presented in “Realia”, a show curated by Fine Art senior Kayla Carlson.

A majority of the pieces that will be shown are recent, though earlier collaborative video work will be exhibited. Sarah Valdez will present a series of small and large interactive installations, transforming common construction materials into intimate and curious objects and observances. She will also be performing with willing participants using live feed in a game-like interface. Jenny Vu will share her experience and recent quest with painting by displaying several small portrait multiples, larger figurative paintings on paper, and earlier abstractions. Though both artists have diverged from their early collaborative work, both still find a significant source of inspiration and strength in what has directed their new paths. Please join us for an evening of Art, friends, fun and complimentary food and refreshments!

Implacable Creature - Nov. 11, 2008

UPCOMING EVENT

IMPLACABLE CREATURE - Mikaela Williams & Amanda Seckington

TUESDAY | 11 November 2008 | 7-10pm

press release

The Crossley Gallery and Ringling College of Art & Design is proud to present “Implacable Creature,” with an opening reception on the 11^th of November, 2008 from 7-10pm. Fine Art Juniors Mikaela Raquel Williams and Amanda Seckington will show separate bodies of work in the gallery. Recent exhibitions by both artists include the COSMIX exhibition at the South Florida Museum and the collaborative student show ‘Realia’ in the spring of 2008. The COSMIX pieces consisted of successful installations by both artists and an additional video/performance by Williams. In addition, they are both recipients of the Women Contemporary Artist Scholarship.
Amanda Seckington recently attended the summer residency program at the prestigious School of Video Arts in Manhattan, New York. She presents large-scale sculptures that utilize a wide array of materials and selected references to inflatables. “I am influenced by many summers spent swimming, snorkeling, sailing and canoeing among the coral reefs of tropical islands and water bodies of Florida. In addition, I may have been a whale in a past life and at times I have a grotesque sense of humor.”
Mikaela Williams is twenty years old and from Titusville, Florida. Williams creates a unified dialogue of installation, sculpture, drawing, video and performance through compelling uses of materials and color. “The work initiates hand made personal storytelling methods that use the literal vs. abstract qualities of narratives brought together in order to create an engrossing environment… The work has shown increasing dependency on surreal visuals of density and complexity. My endless curiosity for the capacity of art is mainly fueled by goals of taking personal emotions and making them tangible.”

Tom Stephens - Nov. 7, 2008