Triangle artists are hitting the ground running in 2012. Check out these openings in NYC and beyond…
Opening TONIGHT at TNC Gallery in Manhattan 5-7pm featuring work by former alums Eve Bailey (workshop ’04) and Nora Herting (workshop ’06)
The selected group of artists for this exhibit work in a diversity of materials and approaches, both traditional and unexpected, to create work that is a mirror of contemporary issues and obsessions. Whether figurative, ornamental, or purely abstract, the exhibition (ironically hung with a theater as backdrop) draws attention to that elusive point of view called “reality.”
Show runs through February 26th. TNC Gallery is located at 155 First Avenue NY, NY 10003. For more info click here.
Triangle board member, Marsha Pels has a show opening this Thursday, January 12th, 6-8pm, at Schoeder Romero & Shredder in Chelsea
In Detroit Redux, Marsha Pels has created a personal metaphorical landscape with an ensemble of five sculptures dealing with decay, frailty and rehabilitation in relation to the fall of a great American city. Pels continues to merge autobiographical narratives within the larger context of global concerns. Consisting of deconstructed surrogates of the artist herself, these sculptures fuse images of destruction with images of resurrection to make us question the body as a working machine, aging vs. fertility and the animal as savior.
Also on view with Marsha Pels’s sculpture are four photographs by Frank Schwere from his series Detroit. Shown in New York for the first time, these large C-prints depict the ruinous state of America’s once great motor city.
Show runs through February 11th. Schroeder Romero & Shredder is located at 531 W. 26th St., NY, NY 10001. For more information and to read the full press release click here.
If you happen to be in London check out David Webb’s (workshop ’06) piece in this group show opening January 12, 5-8pm at WIMBLEDONspace on the Wimbledon College of Art campus
In recent decades the idea of the nude has been in decline in art-school: life drawing is no longer practiced widely, ideas and research are currently preeminent. The tradition of teaching painting in British art schools has grown out of non-referential painting, abstraction and formalism; and the objective, realist tradition of painting the figure died with Euan Uglow. Would it not be apposite then, to take a look at this neglected genre? The nude seems ripe for a reawakening; it is an implicitly psychological genre, tapping directly into the artistic psyche.
Show runs until February 10. WIMBLEDONspace is located at Merton Hall Road, London, SW19 3QA. For more information and to read the full press release click here.
If you happen to be in The Netherlands check out this group show featuring Els Vanden Meersch (workshop ’06) opening January 14th, from 4-7pm at CORROSIA!
Spiders, large groups of people, terrorism, deep ravines, squares, failure, dark alleys, death, horses, alone, clowns … Everyone knows fear and anxiety comes in all shapes and sizes. But above all, fear is a gut feeling and resonates subtly and brutally in our world. It’s like a sculptor Louise Bourgeois put it: “Fears are the mainsprings of the world.” The exhibition “Who’s Afraid of …” brings together artists who explore the theme of fear, embrace, swear or use as inspiration and most tangible. The artists in “Who’s afraid or not afraid.
