Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Jiha Moon & Rachel Hayes, together again!





More Mergers & Acquisitions
DEC 10, 2009 - FEB 14, 2010
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

535 Means Street NW
Atlanta, GA, 30318
404.688.1970
info@thecontemporary.org

Heidi Aishman, Steve Aishman, Leah Busch, Joe Gibbons, Sam Gilliam, Golden Blizzard, Ron Gorchov, Curtis Mitchell, Jiha Moon and Rachel Hayes, Joe Peragine, Arnulf Rainer, Scott Reeder, Frank Stella, Team SHaG, Brad Tucker, William Wegman, Richard Wentworth, Joel-Peter Witkin

More Mergers & Acquisitions is a continuation of our popular and provocative exhibition Mergers & Acquisitions (December 12, 2008 – January 25, 2009), that brought together works by renowned modern masters and consequential contemporary artists. Once again, distinctive works in various media have been borrowed from local, regional, and national artists, collections, galleries, and studios; combined they create surprising affinities of form, content, and historical legacy. The exhibition is organized into four themes: Figure-Ground, Collaboration, Un-Natural, and Familiar Faces. Throughout the exhibition, found photographs contribute to each thematic grouping.

Figure-Ground is an organizational concept that helps to locate specific forms in represented or real space. Works by painters Sam Gilliam, Ron Gorchov, and Frank Stella clarify or confuse elements of figure and ground by redefining the possibilities of the shaped canvas and how it can contain color and gesture. Brad Tucker and Richard Wentworth are sculptors who manipulate common materials (wooden lattice, metal buckets) to create humorously metaphysical objects and installations.

Jiha Moon and Rachel Hayes, Golden Blizzard (an Atlanta-based collective), and Team SHaG (New York painters Amy Sillman, David Humphrey, and Elliott Green), all choose to take on the joys and pitfalls of Collaboration. Each artist possesses a diverse and inclusive practice, so their collective activities cultivate an even wider range of illustrative techniques and image-making traditions including collage, figuration, landscape, surrealism, fantasy, and kitsch.

The theme of Un-Natural brings together works by Steve Aishman, Joe Gibbons, Joe Peragine, and Scott Reeder, who examine aspects of abundance, violence, estrangement, and sadness. Their works present various flowers, plants, and gardens as the recipients of human activity or as sentient beings capable of their own expressive powers.

Familiar Faces are seen in a variety of funny or disturbing head shots including Osama Bin Laden, Farrah Fawcett, the Man in the Moon, and artist self portraits. Works by Heidi Aishman, Leah Busch, Arnulf Rainer, Curtis Mitchell, Joel-Peter Witkin, and William Wegman use these subjects in combination with precise materials to examine the complexities of identity and popular culture.

More Mergers & Acquisitions acknowledges current states of personal, economic, and institutional uncertainty while positing an optimistic tone of generosity and camaraderie.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Eric Sall @ Marty Walker Gallery, Nov. 21st - Dec. 23rd

Eric will be showing a group of paintings titled 'Obstacles'.

Marty Walker Gallery
2135 Farrington Street
Dallas, TX 75207

Obstacle 1, 2008, oil on canvas, 46" x 60"

Obstacle 2, 2008, oil on canvas, 40" x 36"

Obstacle 3, 2008, oil on canvas, 36" x 40"

Friday, October 23, 2009

Rachel's sneak peak for upcoming shows...

Here is the 1st model for the middle gallery @ my upcoming solo show at Colorado State University December 2009...







Also in December, my friend Jiha Moon and I will be collaborating on a piece at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center


STAY TUNED!

Eric @ Dolphin Gallery in the Pitch


Eric Sall
Rock of Ages
96" x 72"
2008

(this is a photo from the studio, better pics of the paintings to come!)

Saturday, September 26, 2009

And in Other News


Kansas City Star writes about our show... at the Dolphin Gallery
Eric Sall and Rachel Hayes return to Kansas City with large-scale installations at Dolphin. After training at the Kansas City Art Institute, the two got married and now live in New York............

The Old Gold posted pictures of the group show, I Wanna Be Somewhere, I (Rachel) was in last week. My piece was a model of Ice Cold Daydream at the Dolphin Gallery.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Isolated Incidents & Ice Cold Daydream






Eric and I are excited to be showing together in Kansas City, MO. We met in this city, and had our first studios in an amazing loft in the West Bottoms neighborhood. Recently, the awesome Dolphin Gallery relocated to this neighborhood.

September 4 - November 7, 2009
DOLPHIN
1600 Liberty St. Kansas City, MO

Eric Sall
Isolated Incidents
Eric Sall new paintings at Dolphin Gallery were created within the past year during a studio residency at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program in Brooklyn.
In addition to the seven large scale canvases on display the exhibition includes an entire wall installation of small drawings, paintings, photographs and collages mocked up as they were in Sall’s studio in
New York.

Rachel Hayes
Ice Cold Day Dreams
Rachel Hayes installation Ice Cold Day Dream envelopes the front Gallery at Dolphin. A single 30' X 30’ drape of sewn fabric and vinyl hangs weightlessly acting as catch-all for the dense and weighted form that seems to rest in its embrace. Created is an experimental landscape with color, line and light, layered to create a depth of new and ambiguous images.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Rainbow Conversation

Two Public Art Projects Announced-- Rachel Hayes and Nina Bovasso Kickoff Re:Construction 2009

BravinLee Programsis pleased to have been selected as consultants to the Downtown Alliance for their Re: Construction program. This initiative channels the energy of Downtown's rebuilding process by recasting construction sites as canvasses for innovative public art and architecture. Each project uses standard construction barriers for artistic installations, embracing the ongoing nature of Downtown's redevelopment. The program will run for three years, and is funded through a grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is funded through Community Development Block Grants from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

This summer BravinLee programs will present Rachel Hayes and Nina Bovasso on two different construction sites in Lower Manhattan.

In mid August, Rachel Hayes will install Rainbow Conversation at the Louise Nevelson Plaza construction site, part the of New York City Department of Design and Construction's Liberty Street reconstruction project, located at the corner of William Street and Maiden Lane. In Rainbow Conversation, Sculptor Rachel Hayes creates spectacular experiences of color and motion in an area that might otherwise be overlooked or avoided. Strips of opaque and sheer fabrics and vinyl have been sewed into striped panels. These materials are not only objects with boundless properties for manipulation, but also historical signifiers of gender, fashion, decoration and gesture. Hayes' installation will transform the 41 aluminum fences that surround the construction zone into a sensual and vibrant experience, building experimental multihued landscapes with line and light. Some of the pieces will flutter in the wind so that one will see both movement and color from either end of the Plaza, beckoning the viewer to move around it. Hayes is interested in the deep conversation going on behind the fence, consisting of mostly grueling and heavy activity, engineered with giant machines. Rainbow Conversation has been just as carefully engineered as the construction going on behind it: Each piece was meticulously hand-sewn, and incorporates not only Hayes' own physical labor, but also that of family and friends, including both her mother and mother-in-law. According to Hayes, "It is almost as if my work doesn't care what is going on behind it, yet I am responding to the construction site, offering sheer windows to peep through and witness the hard work of others. It is quite interesting that all this construction surrounds Louise Nevelson's 'Shadows and Flags', 1978, a powerful sculpture by an important woman artist. It is almost cyclical."

Rachel Hayes hails from Kansas City and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has had solo exhibitions at Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, Solvent Space, Richmond, VA, LAB Gallery, NY and Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. Group exhibitions include the Sculpture Center, NY, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Grand Arts, Kansas City, and Fakespace LA. Awards and Residencies include Sculpture Space Residency, Art Omi International Residency, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in Sculpture. Most recently she was awarded the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship in Sculpture and will have a solo show 2010 in Cornish, NH.

Project management for Rainbow Conversation: Eric Sall









Tuesday, July 14, 2009

preview of - Rainbow Conversation







soon I will be installing 41 of these sewn panels in Lower Manhattan...around Louise Nevelson Plaza as part of a project curated by Karin Bravin, and the Downtown Alliance. These pictures are of 15 installed in my parents backyard in Greenwood, MO.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

2 group shows- Rachel Hayes


Curated By: Jon Lutz
Long Island City, NY
check out Jon's blog The Old Gold
artist's links from the show Daily Operation
and another great blog KCLOG Blog



Lisa Rundstrom, Kirsten Kindler, Suzanna Fields, Kristin Beal, Bryan Condra, Barbara Tisserat, Pete Baldes, Ginnie Baer, Carrie Dyer, Langdon Graves, Vaughn Garland, Stu Hollins, Matt Kenyon, Rachel Hayes & Sandra Luckett
ADA GAllery, Richmond, VA

Eric Sall Studio Visit








here are a few of Eric Sall's new paintings...