Alumni News

Please join us Thursday, September 15 from 6-9 pm for the closing reception of between the tongue and the taste and then again on Sunday, September 18 from 12-6 pm for the soft opening of Rain Dance.

How does an artist’s mark derive its power? Using a variety of media, Eve Bailey (workshop ’04) and Albert Pedulla (workshop ’02) examine the relationship between body and mind from opposite ends of the spectrum.

Rain Dance, like the ritual from which it takes its name, features work that metaphorically examines the contemporary ambivalence with the state of the natural world, and considers how much control we can have over it. Additionally, the work of Nick Lamia (workshop ’04), Jason Middlebrook and Leslie Wayne, each in their own way, investigates the universal notions of ambivalence and simultaneity.

Rain Dance will be on view next week Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday from 12-6 pm.

We will also be holding extended gallery hours during the DUMBO Arts Festival, Friday, September 23 from 6-9 pm and Saturday, September 24 from 12-8 pm with the official reception for the artists, Saturday, September 24 from 5-8 pm.

111 Front Street, Suite 222 = Triangle

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(image courtesy of Etienne Frossard)

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
JOHN BJERKLIE’S SLOW HEALING TRAIN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2011, 6-9PM

For more details visit Parker’s Box

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Opening reception Friday, Sept. 9, from 7-9pm

Hours: 11am to 6pm, Tuesday through Sunday and by appointment
Location: 177 North 9th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211
Contact: 718.599.2144

Pierogi is pleased to present an exhibition of Michael Schall’s recent works on paper. The drawings in Schall’s previous exhibition revealed the natural world and the man-made, industrial world often merging, and in some instances industry even seemingly attempting to rebuild what has been compromised. In his new works both realms have become so precariously balanced that they begin to mimic each other. A number of the drawings focus on the middle ground between these two realms, where the natural world seems so artificial, unpredictable, and reinforced, that it might be taken to be purely man made.

Read the rest of the press release and view images from the show here
Visit Michael on the web here

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Connections and Variations: New Paintings from Pat Service

Reception: Saturday September 10th, 2-4pm
September 10th – 29th, 2011

The gallery is located at:
228 – 3rd Avenue S. Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7K 1L9

For more information and to view images from the show visit Art Placement Inc. here.

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Rekevics (workshop alumni ’01) will be participating in our first cultural exchange with the city of Le Havre, France. Visit Karlis’ Kickstarter page to learn about his project and how you can help him cover his expenses.

Excerpt from Kickstarter page:

For this first-ever cultural exchange, sponsored by the City of La Havre and Triangle Arts (NYC) the artist proposes to take this New York sensibility and look at a different city that is much-influenced by New York.  Karlis is intrigued by the connections between the cities:  the maritime history, the architectural and aesthetic characteristics that have inspired generations of artists.  He is also interested looking at the differences; teasing out the urban idiosyncrasies that define a place.  Through his highly developed visual language, he wants to hold a lens up to both cities and create drawings that reflect similarities and differences.  The residency is from October 9-December 23, 2011.

To visit Karlis’ Kickstarter page and make a contribution visit:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1143196197/new-york-to-la-havre-criss-cross-views

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Triangle Arts Association is pleased to present the work of two of our Artists’ Workshop alumni, Eve Bailey and Albert Pedulla. The exhibition opens Thursday, September 1, 6-9pm at 111 Front Street Galleries, Suite 222.

How does an artist’s mark derive its power? Using a variety of media, Bailey and Pedulla examine the relationship between body and mind  from opposite ends of the spectrum.

Bailey employs the body as a “perceiving mechanical structure” that serves to “express the elegance of a gesture,” a device reaching beyond the physical products conceived of and executed by the mind. The works she makes are preparations that seek to instigate an opportunity for the body to complete them. Series of 1/4 Scale Maquettes is a sculptural document of her process to create a form upon which the body can perform a sequence of movements.

In other works such as Shoulder Path, Drawing Bailey records a predetermined movement by marking her body with paint. The resulting work serves as a blueprint of an abstracted moment in which the body has moved through space.

Conversely, Pedulla focuses on the mind seeking to form an “epistemology of the artist’s mark”. In Extracted Wall Drawing #3 (Path) a representation of a walk he took is rendered and then dissected. Remnants of his thought process are portrayed in intricate threads literally pulling apart the initial route moment by moment.

In Double-Portrait (Meg #1, #2, #3) Pedulla takes the process a step further by using the body as a space upon which the mind can make a mark. In this instance Pedulla literally burns an image onto a human body by creating a photographic negative and exposing it in a tanning bed using the model’s skin as the photosensitive material. This process which he refers to as a “tanograph” is framed in a manner that excludes almost any indication that the image exists upon a human body but eerily aligns the model’s naval with the mouth of the image.

Despite these seemingly opposite approaches, both artists’ processes converge around an underlying similarity. Bailey’s Work Force and Pedulla’s Public Rectilinear Form (Modernist-Post) share a conceptual space in which both artists entertain a state of being that exists beyond mind or body. In Bailey’s piece, a precarious if not dangerous sculpture is constructed that she then climbs atop and walks upon. A palpable tension is felt as she confidently but slowly traverses the structure. This tension between the focused concentration upon the act and the simultaneous disregard of its potentially harmful outcome incites the viewer to contemplate the meditative state necessary to execute this performance.  Similarly, Pedulla’s piece creates a space in which to consider the conflicting notions of intention and intuition. He subverts the tradition of the over intellectualized and rarified artist’s mark by capturing the off-the-cuff gestures of passers-by and framing them within the context of the Modernist monolith. With a schoolhouse twist, he takes off the white gloves and glorifies the purely instinctive human tendency to express oneself.

Considering these works together, it becomes apparent that there is a state of being that neither the body nor the mind can fully fathom. Perhaps another state exists between the physicality of the body and the relentless activity of the mind; a space where the actual mark is formed and from which it derives its power of expression.

The exhibition will be open until September 15 and we will be holding regular gallery hours Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6pm and appointment.

In addition since this exhibition is only two weeks, we will be holding a closing reception on Thursday, September 15 from 6-9pm.

111 Front Street, Suite 222 = Triangle

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