Monday, March 30, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
"Bits and Pieces" March 6th 2009
work by Kristy Milner
work by Cole Borycens
work by Kristy Milner
installation view
Work by Kristy Milner
work by Cole Borycens
work by Cole Borycens
work by Cole Borycens
work by Kristy Milner
instillation view
work by Kristy Milner
work by Kristy Milner
installation view
work by Kristy MilnerTuesday, March 3, 2009
"Bits and Pieces" Cole Borycens & Kristy Milner, 6 March 2009
The Crossley Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design invites you to the opening "Bits and Pieces", a show featuring the work of Cole Borycens and Kristy Milner. Both of these artists create unique installations by using cheap or found material.
Cole Borycens explores new ways of making art by combining audio mixing with installation. He collects audio samples from consumer items that people may unintentionally ignore and organizes them into one piece. His installations are visual representations of sound and his placement of objects are very spontaneous. By hybridizing audio and installation Cole is giving the viewer the perfect opportunity to understand and appreciate his entire process.
Kristy Milner is driven by obsessive compulsion and a fascination with the relatively unknown world that exists on our ocean floors. She captures a sense of pattern, color, and shape and incorporates them into her "growths". By purchasing cheap, readily available craft store materials, Kristy builds these creature-like forms to exaggerate the bizarre in nature. Her tedious process of common craft materials is her physical realization and mental obsession.
Friday, February 27, 2009
"Impulse" 20th February 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
"It's Called Paper" Feb. 13th 2009
Lithograph portaits by Angela Bassini
Hanging installation by Ariel Hardwick
Watercolor drawings by Amanda Dawson
detail of Angela Bassini's lithograph
Artists (left to right) : Angela Bassini, Ariel Hardwick, and Amanda Dawson
(Photographs by Michelle Fisher)
"Impulse" Kristen Bellomo and Sara Harrison - Friday, 20th February 2009
The Crossley Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design presents "Impulse", featuring thesis work by Kristen Bellomo and Sara Harrison. Both artists work with sculpture and installation to help represent ideas of impulses through the physical, emotional and perceptual.
Kristen Bellomo works with the idea of paradoxical questioning. Primarily koans, which are used in the teachings of Zen Buddhism to show inadequacy of logical reasoning and are used as an aid in contemplation. She creates sculptural objects and installations dealing with questions of existence, and has introduced text by inventing specific questions/koans regarding the perceptual experience and the artistic process.
Sara Harrison works primarily with electronics, dealing with the idea that electrical currents and the human body have so much in common. She creates sculptures that speak directly to emotional experience. She deals with loss; the direct reactions to emotion and the physical effects that these emotions have on one's body.
Please join us on Friday, February 20th for hors’ devours and beverages!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
"It's Called Paper" Angela Bassini, Amanda Dawson, Ariel Hardwick - Friday 13 February 2009
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.
