EXHIBITIONS
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Artist Reception Friday, 7/12/19, 6-9p
Artists: Caroline Burton, Lee Arnold, Jeri Coppola, Katrina Bello
Opening Reception:
7/12/19 Friday, 6-9p
Gallery Hours:
Thurs/Fri, 5-8p, Sat/Sun, 1-6p
Artists Talks:
7/13/19 Sat: Jeri Coppola
8/11/19 Sun: Caroline Burton, Katrina Bello
"Just Beneath the Surface", 7/11/19 - 8/11/19, is an exhibit featuring drawing, painting, sculpture and video by artists Caroline Burton, Jeri Coppola, Katrina Bello and Lee Arnold, whose works deal with issues around memory- both real and imagined.
Curated by Anne Trauben.
Memory is the faculty of the brain by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. Memory helps make individuals who they are. It is vital to experiences and influential of future actions. Memory is not always reliable.
According to Khan Academy, memory can take the form of sensations, images, and emotions. As such, memory lends itself perfectly as a subject and tool for artists. With the idea of memory in mind, some artists try to document things exactly as they are in order to create a record for future generations. Others deliberately frame the past in different or unexpected ways to change the way we think about history. Other artists explore memories of personal events. Making this type of memory work helps artists get close to the experience so they can gain an understanding of what happened and/or “work out” the experience. By giving life to these memories, the artist and others who’ve had similar experiences may find benefit.
Many well known contemporary artists’ works deal with memory. Do Ho Suh’s work is made based on personal memories of architectural spaces. Rachel Whiteread’s cast sculpture frees her subject matter—from beds, tables, and boxes to water towers and entire houses—from practical use, suggesting a new permanence, imbued with memory. Louise Bourgeois’ works often deal with childhood memories.
Exhibiting artist Caroline Burton’s works are informed by memories of family relationships, experiences and opposing maternal and paternal influences. As such, Caroline “stitches fragments back together, to embrace the discord, to make my life whole”. Caroline’s work is rooted in a grid structure “to create order”. Caroline’s studio practice is process driven and draws on minimalism, her Finnish heritage, architectural forms, textiles, and “the effects of accidents (personally and through art making)”. Caroline’s materials include paint, canvas, thread, hydrocal, and bronze.
Jeri Coppola’s work investigates the gap between the internal landscape of memory and the external world around us. The flow between real and imagined becomes blurred as her work travels between narrative and dream state. Sometimes there is a hint of nightmare or discomfort. Jeri is as interested in loss of memory and forgetting, as she is in memory itself. “Sometimes there is both image and text and the intersection of the two can make up a narrative which is sometimes in sync, or they fight against each other, like seeing something out of the corner of your eye and when you go back to it either it is very different from what you thought or not there at all.”
Of Katrina Bello’s “Hawak/Hold” drawing series she says, Hawak is the Filipino translation for the English word “hold.” Filipino is her native language and also of her daughters. “Hawak/Hold” is about Katrina’s shared experience of migration with her daughters, and how the body of water represented in these series of works (the Pacific Ocean) is a space situated in between her daughters who reside in its opposite shores. For Katrina, the Pacific Ocean is both a space that links them, but also an insurmountable expanse that separates them.
Lee Arnold examines systems of natural phenomena, the aesthetics of information. Working in film, video, animation, photography, collage, drawing and sound, his practice engages with perceptions of time, memory, and visual experience through the lens of philosophical and scientific inquiry. Lee will be showing 5 videos on two projectors.
Opening Reception:
7/12/19 Friday, 6-9p
Gallery Hours:
Thurs/Fri, 5-8p, Sat/Sun, 1-6p
Artists Talks:
7/13/19 Sat: Jeri Coppola
8/11/19 Sun: Caroline Burton, Katrina Bello
"Just Beneath the Surface", 7/11/19 - 8/11/19, is an exhibit featuring drawing, painting, sculpture and video by artists Caroline Burton, Jeri Coppola, Katrina Bello and Lee Arnold, whose works deal with issues around memory- both real and imagined.
Curated by Anne Trauben.
Memory is the faculty of the brain by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. Memory helps make individuals who they are. It is vital to experiences and influential of future actions. Memory is not always reliable.
According to Khan Academy, memory can take the form of sensations, images, and emotions. As such, memory lends itself perfectly as a subject and tool for artists. With the idea of memory in mind, some artists try to document things exactly as they are in order to create a record for future generations. Others deliberately frame the past in different or unexpected ways to change the way we think about history. Other artists explore memories of personal events. Making this type of memory work helps artists get close to the experience so they can gain an understanding of what happened and/or “work out” the experience. By giving life to these memories, the artist and others who’ve had similar experiences may find benefit.
Many well known contemporary artists’ works deal with memory. Do Ho Suh’s work is made based on personal memories of architectural spaces. Rachel Whiteread’s cast sculpture frees her subject matter—from beds, tables, and boxes to water towers and entire houses—from practical use, suggesting a new permanence, imbued with memory. Louise Bourgeois’ works often deal with childhood memories.
Exhibiting artist Caroline Burton’s works are informed by memories of family relationships, experiences and opposing maternal and paternal influences. As such, Caroline “stitches fragments back together, to embrace the discord, to make my life whole”. Caroline’s work is rooted in a grid structure “to create order”. Caroline’s studio practice is process driven and draws on minimalism, her Finnish heritage, architectural forms, textiles, and “the effects of accidents (personally and through art making)”. Caroline’s materials include paint, canvas, thread, hydrocal, and bronze.
Jeri Coppola’s work investigates the gap between the internal landscape of memory and the external world around us. The flow between real and imagined becomes blurred as her work travels between narrative and dream state. Sometimes there is a hint of nightmare or discomfort. Jeri is as interested in loss of memory and forgetting, as she is in memory itself. “Sometimes there is both image and text and the intersection of the two can make up a narrative which is sometimes in sync, or they fight against each other, like seeing something out of the corner of your eye and when you go back to it either it is very different from what you thought or not there at all.”
Of Katrina Bello’s “Hawak/Hold” drawing series she says, Hawak is the Filipino translation for the English word “hold.” Filipino is her native language and also of her daughters. “Hawak/Hold” is about Katrina’s shared experience of migration with her daughters, and how the body of water represented in these series of works (the Pacific Ocean) is a space situated in between her daughters who reside in its opposite shores. For Katrina, the Pacific Ocean is both a space that links them, but also an insurmountable expanse that separates them.
Lee Arnold examines systems of natural phenomena, the aesthetics of information. Working in film, video, animation, photography, collage, drawing and sound, his practice engages with perceptions of time, memory, and visual experience through the lens of philosophical and scientific inquiry. Lee will be showing 5 videos on two projectors.
