detail of Angela Bassini's lithograph
UPCOMING EVENT
The Crossley Gallery at Ringling College of Art & Design welcomes you to the opening night of "It's called Paper", a show featuring the work of three senior Fine Artists: Ariel Hardwick, Amanda Dawson and Angela Bassini. All of these artists work with paper to talk about relationships concerning the human form.
Ariel Hardwick explores the female form through generalization and figurative subtlety. Her fascination with the figure is explored with powdered charcoal, gel matte medium, tracing paper, and monofilament. Hardwick inlays charcoal and matte medium into the tracing paper, manipulating it into voluptuous, orifice shapes that give reference to natural forms, especially the sensual form of the figure. Singular components are placed together to create installations and are hung or attached to surfaces.
Amanda Dawson constructs landscapes by using relationships to build personal portraits. She uses trees to represent herself and others within her landscape. Spacing and repetition convey her feeling of these relationships. She screen prints and uses water color on paper to create these images. Dawson uses delicate line work and repetition to allow the viewer to build narratives and recall their own experiences.
The images that are used in Angela Bassini's work are snap shots of individuals. These portraits give the viewer a brief glimpse of a random point in the subject's life. Printmaking processes such as lithography and silk-screening are used to create the image. The repetitive nature of each of these processes allows the artist to explore each piece and find how best to express the individuals.
All of the work in this exhibition is based on our perspectives whether they are self, relational, or based on the body. Please join us on Friday. Refreshments will be served.
The Crossley Gallery at Ringling College of Art & Design welcomes you to the opening night of "House", a show produced by two senior Fine Artists, Annie Schor and Lauren Smith. Both artists presented work in "The Ones that Got Away" a group show featuring Ringling students who had studied in New York and Ireland. Annie studied in Ireland and Lauren studied in New York.
Both artists are attracted to the interior and the exterior spaces of the home and are currently working on their individual senior thesis.
The artist Annie Schor works with the idea of a house being a container for the body. She makes plywood staircases; plaster houses, soap houses, latex sheets, and drawings of houses. Mattresses are used to reference the body in her work. She investigates the anxiety of not knowing what to do with time; waiting for something to happen yet nothing ever does.
Lauren Smith creates environments that explore interiors as personal histories. Using various mediums, her work is formed through a hybrid approach. She incorporates video, installations, photography, digital drawings, and sculptures made of wood. Lauren’s work generalizes the specific, edits and abstracts individual spaces into basic shapes and colors, while addressing both their sameness and uniqueness. “By recreating private spaces I am creating works in which viewers can imagine their selves an integral part.”
Please join us for an evening of Art, friends, family, music, and complimentary food and drink!
The amazing Crossley Gallery Senior Exhibition poster was designed by Amanda Woodward, a Ringling GIC alum. 
