https://thestudiodoor.com/the-crow-show
i19 Gallery, a virtual exhibition:
April 27th - June 30th, 2020
More information @ https://www.sopacnow.org/gallery-virtual-exhibition/
Fridge show an exhibition in, on, and about a fridge.
opening April 25th, 7-10pm @ Dinney House, Lower Main St. W 05656, Johnson, VT
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Images and text from Annelies Kamen's site, original PR: https://www.annelieskamen.com/crybaby
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JRAL’s inaugural show features the collections of Raleigh Ceasar and Joshua Knoblick with Julia Thomson’s curatorial vision, including three works of her own. The pieces from Raleigh Ceasar were acquired from the collection of Jane Hart and display a wide array of artists, from local to international. New Jersey artists from this collection include Willie Cole, Nell Painter, and Mel Leipzig. Joshua Knoblick has a long standing relationship with the Newark art scene. His collection is primarily inspired by Newark artists with whom he is familiar. Artists from his collection include Gianluca Bianchino and Lizzy Storm. The three black-and-white drawings by Julia Thomson reflect her dramatic, surreal vision and come from her series of floating scapes.
www.jral.com/upcoming |
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What is A Drawing? Comes to the Pierro Gallery
South Orange, NJ November 2, 2018
What Is A Drawing?
The Pierro Gallery
The Baird Center
5 Mead Street, South Orange
November 8- December 15
Opening Thursday November 8, 7-9pm
Art Talk Thursday, November 29, 7pm
What Is A Drawing? at the Pierro Gallery of South Orange November 8 - December 15 asks a fundamental question about the nature of drawing. This is a group show that explores ways artists use drawing to think, to generate form, and to describe things and feelings. Artists in the show use the forces of nature, math and physics, as well as images from art history and other stimulus as the impetus for their work. No ordinary drawing show, “What is a Drawing” features 13 artists whose work expands the idea of what drawing is for and what it can be. An opening reception will take place on November 8, from 7pm-9pm. An Art Talk will be held on November 29, at 7pm.
Artists: Jillian Clark, Orly Cogan, Tim Daly, Daren Kendall, William Lamson, Ryan Roa, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Julia Thomson, Katie Truk, London Tsai, Jeanne Marie Wasilik, JoJo Whilden, Charles Yen. Curated by Greg Leshé and Sandy Martiny
Tim Daly and Julia Thomson use traditional means to create beautiful drawings. Daly’s soft pastel skyscapes over Hoboken, observed from life, manage to simultaneously evoke conflicting feelings of both peace and unease. Thomson’s pen and ink floating landscapes were developed from her imagination and reflect a sense of meditation evoking the sound of “singing bowls”. Several artists use materials better known under other circumstances. Jillian Clark makes chalk line drawings directly on walls incorporating architectural features with a tool usually used by those in the building trades. Ryan Roa stretches black rubber bungee cords between walls creating a three dimensional drawing that jumps into the room. Katie Truk also brings line into three dimensional space stretching nylon materials over, around and through wire forms. Needle and thread, once used for utility and decoration by generations of women become drawing tools for Orly Cogan, upending figural compositions better recognized from life drawing class and infusing them with a sweetly satirical feminist perspective. Travis LeRoy Southworth also deals with image and beauty, but from a fashion industry outlook that comments on how we present ourselves to the world. His prints and sculptures are directly related to the act of photo retouching, mapping and preserving the erasure and re-drawing that takes place before an image is published. Two artists use video to explore line and form. Daren Kendall records himself manipulating building materials, than erases himself from the video, leaving us with dancing lines and mysterious sounds while William Lamson harnesses natural forces through primitive machines he makes to create drawings of wind, gravity and water. London Tsai taps into his education and passion as a mathematician to make beautiful activated drawings of mathematical theory. Charles Yen makes quick brushy drawings in ink and watercolor that may be diaristic, but also resonate more broadly with the emotional tenor of life lived today. JoJo Whilden photographically captures found drawings made by the tires of cars, recognizable, yet out of context. Jeanne Marie Wasilik also works in this realm but in a different way. She makes quick sketches in paint of figures from late Goya, particularly the print series Los Disparates. Divorced from their original media and context, the figures float free in black space, a link for us today who like Goya, grapple with disquieting times.
Sandy Martiny
Director of Cultural Affairs
Village of South Orange
Department of Recreation and Cultural Affairs
5 Mead Street
South Orange, NJ 07079
[email protected]
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What is A Drawing? Comes to the Pierro Gallery
South Orange, NJ November 2, 2018
What Is A Drawing?
The Pierro Gallery
The Baird Center
5 Mead Street, South Orange
November 8- December 15
Opening Thursday November 8, 7-9pm
Art Talk Thursday, November 29, 7pm
What Is A Drawing? at the Pierro Gallery of South Orange November 8 - December 15 asks a fundamental question about the nature of drawing. This is a group show that explores ways artists use drawing to think, to generate form, and to describe things and feelings. Artists in the show use the forces of nature, math and physics, as well as images from art history and other stimulus as the impetus for their work. No ordinary drawing show, “What is a Drawing” features 13 artists whose work expands the idea of what drawing is for and what it can be. An opening reception will take place on November 8, from 7pm-9pm. An Art Talk will be held on November 29, at 7pm.
Artists: Jillian Clark, Orly Cogan, Tim Daly, Daren Kendall, William Lamson, Ryan Roa, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Julia Thomson, Katie Truk, London Tsai, Jeanne Marie Wasilik, JoJo Whilden, Charles Yen. Curated by Greg Leshé and Sandy Martiny
Tim Daly and Julia Thomson use traditional means to create beautiful drawings. Daly’s soft pastel skyscapes over Hoboken, observed from life, manage to simultaneously evoke conflicting feelings of both peace and unease. Thomson’s pen and ink floating landscapes were developed from her imagination and reflect a sense of meditation evoking the sound of “singing bowls”. Several artists use materials better known under other circumstances. Jillian Clark makes chalk line drawings directly on walls incorporating architectural features with a tool usually used by those in the building trades. Ryan Roa stretches black rubber bungee cords between walls creating a three dimensional drawing that jumps into the room. Katie Truk also brings line into three dimensional space stretching nylon materials over, around and through wire forms. Needle and thread, once used for utility and decoration by generations of women become drawing tools for Orly Cogan, upending figural compositions better recognized from life drawing class and infusing them with a sweetly satirical feminist perspective. Travis LeRoy Southworth also deals with image and beauty, but from a fashion industry outlook that comments on how we present ourselves to the world. His prints and sculptures are directly related to the act of photo retouching, mapping and preserving the erasure and re-drawing that takes place before an image is published. Two artists use video to explore line and form. Daren Kendall records himself manipulating building materials, than erases himself from the video, leaving us with dancing lines and mysterious sounds while William Lamson harnesses natural forces through primitive machines he makes to create drawings of wind, gravity and water. London Tsai taps into his education and passion as a mathematician to make beautiful activated drawings of mathematical theory. Charles Yen makes quick brushy drawings in ink and watercolor that may be diaristic, but also resonate more broadly with the emotional tenor of life lived today. JoJo Whilden photographically captures found drawings made by the tires of cars, recognizable, yet out of context. Jeanne Marie Wasilik also works in this realm but in a different way. She makes quick sketches in paint of figures from late Goya, particularly the print series Los Disparates. Divorced from their original media and context, the figures float free in black space, a link for us today who like Goya, grapple with disquieting times.
Sandy Martiny
Director of Cultural Affairs
Village of South Orange
Department of Recreation and Cultural Affairs
5 Mead Street
South Orange, NJ 07079
[email protected]
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"The corner! Intervention by American Artist @juliathomson.art at @lostlisbon - Cais house. Based in Philadelphia and graduated in fine arts at Pratt Institute in New York, the artist Julia Thomson is recognized for her abstract language and her mark making technique, using repetitive lines and brushstrokes to explore the meditative aspect of a piece. To reflect her fascination with scientific discoveries, her themes travel from the submarine to outer space. The surrealism of her shapes, light, and colors transport the public to a parallel universe. Thanks, Julia!"
Colorida Art Gallery, Oct. 30 - Nov. 14, 2018
"North American artist Julia Thomson explores in her drawings the infinite possibilities of form and light. The works are the result of the author's high emotional charge, where surreal elements take us to a parallel universe. The artist draws with complete freedom;.. The pen moves on the paper compulsively without stopping and eventually generates complex scenarios and a plurality of readings ". (José Roberto Moreira, Curator and Gallerist)