Eric Sall is the Grant Wood Fellow 2013-14

Eric Sall is the Grant Wood Fellow 2013-14

The Grant Wood Art Colony

Mission:

The mission of the Grant Wood Art Colony is to nurture creative work and teaching in disciplines relevant to the art and life of Grant Wood - studio art and art history, and eventually expanding to a variety of disciplines. The program exemplifies The University of Iowa’s historic commitment to creative work and pioneering of the MFA degree. The Grant Wood Art Colony will further embody the "Iowa Idea" of bringing artists and scholars together in an academic context, as first formulated in the 1920s by President Walter Jessup and Graduate Dean Carl Seashore. Our long-term goal is to create a vibrant colony and cultural center, woven together by gardens and studio space.

Rachel Hayes - All Aflutter

Rosslyn BID launches new temporary public art program

Rachel created 5 separate installations on 5 bridges, lasting for up to a year, near Washington D.C.

All Aflutter

The fiber art installation All Aflutter, created by nationally renowned artist Rachel Hayes will adorn Rosslyn’s skywalks on North Moore St., Nash St. and North Fort Myer Drive with brightly colored, flowing fabric.

Hayes’ large-scale works have graced skywalks along Kansas City, Missouri’s, Avenue of the Arts, New York City construction sites and galleries throughout the United States. She is influenced by a variety of interests that include minimalist sculpture, abstract painting, fashion, flags and quilts.

To plan All Aflutter, Hayes photographed Rosslyn’s architectural elements, to determine fabric placement and the flow of the bridges. “I spent time thinking about how each piece would look up close and far away, how they will relate to each other,” she says, “and how somebody will move their body across the skywalk and ‘see’ what is ahead of them. Pedestrians will have the ability to reach out and touch the materials, and make their own associations with the materials and color.”

“I see stripe patterns and grids all over Rosslyn. I want to respond to these parallel and perpendicular lines by attaching sheer materials that are allowed to billow in the wind,” Hayes adds. “It is not my intention to compete with the landscape of Rosslyn. Rather, I can echo the lines and forms while drawing attention to the unique beauty of a medium sized all-American city.”

All Aflutter In The News

• Kansas City Art Institute blog
  ARTNotes, May 6, 2013
   
• All Aflutter by Rachel Hayes Installed on Rosslyn’s Skywalks
  Arlington Magazine, April 30, 2013
   
• Rosslyn Now Even More Colorful
  The Ode Street Tribune, April 23, 2013

Rachel Hayes @ Associated Gallery

Hot Mamas @ Associated  Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

Hot Mamas

Caroline Falby, Rachel Hayes, Sharon Horvath
July 20 - August 18, 2013

Opening Saturday July 20, 7-10pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Associated is pleased to present a three person show featuring works by Caroline Falby, Rachel Hayes, and Sharon Horvath. All three artists share two, or maybe several, common threads amongst their lives - the act of creating artwork, and of having created life, as mothers. Each has taken their own unique aesthetic approach to art making, and with vastly different materials, but have all juggled sustaining an artistic practice while maintaining and nurturing a family in New York City over the years.

Sharon Horvath creates dreamlike paintings, primarily on paper, with pigment and polymer that she mixes herself. Her imagery balances the serene with the naive, consisting of objects such as rocking horses, baseball fields, complex and ambiguous netted structures, and starry nights. Only occasionally do her subjects allude  to experiences of maternity in an overt manner, but they often hint at domesticity, and always intimacy.

Caroline Falby, by contrast, often creates works that reflect her position and responsibility as a mother.  She uses many media to transgressively question the seemingly absolutist authority of our social structures and especially parenthood.  Often employing dark humor, she draws frequently on fables and apocryphal tales from many cultures to undermine and highlight the failures in our own.

In the objects that Rachel Hayes creates, she seeks to find a natural balance between fragility and power. Her work functions on a multitude of levels; as an object of beauty, as minimalist sculpture, as architectural divide, as abstract painting, or even as a massive stained glass patchwork quilt.  She applies various materials such as glass, fabric, plastic, paint, wire, and light gels that cast colorful, dynamic shadows onto the surrounding environment.  Within her process, she employs techniques evocative of basketry and sewing to build forms that are often related to the “feminine.” Such techniques are offset however, by the color and scale, creating a dichotomy between craft as it relates to the feminine and architecture’s masculine connotations.   

Horvath received her BFA from Cooper Union and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, and has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is currently pursuing a Fulbright US Scholar Grant in India, studying the Ragamala genre of Indian miniature painting.  She has received numerous fellowships and awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, The Rome Prize, and two Pollock-Krasner foundation grants. She is currently an Associate Professor of Painting & Drawing at Purchase College, SUNY.

Falby received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MFA from Hunter College. She has exhibited widely throughout  New York  including shows at NURTUREart, The Drawing Center, the Queens Museum, and the Bronx Art Space.

Hayes received her BFA from Kansas City University and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has attended numerous residencies such as the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation (NY), Roswell (New Mexico), amongst others, and has exhibited widely throughout the US, and has been commissioned for many public art projects.

ASSOCIATED 566 Johnson Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11237 Buzzer #27/#28

http://associatedgallery.tumblr.com/ // associatedgallery@gmail.com

By appointment only, buzz #28 to see if someone is there / or please email to confirm

Eric Sall @ Bravin Lee

Eric @ Bravin Lee

	526 West 26th Street #211
	New York, NY 10001
	p 212 462 4404
	f 212 462 4406
	www.bravinlee.com
	Floater
	Clint Jukkala, Alexander Kroll, Evan Nesbit, Erik Olson, Eric Sall, Amanda Valdez
	May 22 - July 19, 2013

Rachel @ Active Space - Bushwick, Brooklyn

Rachel Hayes - detail of Burlap Falls

Active Space - Bushwick, Brooklyn

Resurrecton

Group Exhibition

May 3rd – 24th 2013

Opening reception Friday, May 3rd, 2013 6pm-10pm

“RESURRECTION” – a revival from inactivity and disuse; “it produced a resurrection of hope” resurgence, revitalization, revival, revivification – bringing again into activity and prominence; “the revival of trade”; “a revival of a neglected play by Moliere”; “the Gothic revival in architecture”

Katie Bell is both a home-maker and a home-wrecker. She is in constant management of what comprises the home while at the same time disassembling its contents. Using the language of abstraction through an excavational lens has allowed her process to become more articulate in the obscurities of buried spaces. In terms of abstract painting, remodeling, for Katie, is an unsettling struggle between hiding and revealing.

Suzanne Goldenberg works in a variety of media including drawing, collage, textiles, video and sculpture. Through an improvisational process, she transforms found and scavenged materials, often what might be considered detritus and of no apparent value, into unexpected sculptural compositions that bear traces of the emotional, the architectural and the comic, but are ultimately non-literal. In these sculptures, the materials retain their histories as the waste by-product of our consumer society, but through a sensitivity to their other possible lives, Goldenberg transforms them into rich materials forming precarious structures poised between growth and collapse.

Rachel Hayes is interested in creating work that functions on multiple levels within a given space—as a fascinating object, as a minimalist sculpture, as an architectural space divider/interrupter, as an abstract painting, or even as a massive stained glass patchwork quilt. Hand-sewn and often large-scale, her work is in equal measure – both powerful and fragile. Scale and color consume a space yet there is balance with the delicately sewn stitches and understated shadows, therefore maintaining a strong physical and material presence while remaining sensuous and experiential.

JR Larson was raised in the Cajun South and has a personal connection to ritual festivities including Mardi Gras and the mysticism surrounding voodoo. Embracing a multitude of cultures, Larson focuses on the creation of spirited objects; his artworks are heavy with the weight of transformative powers: woven, torn, worn-through, pierced and burned. His work is both personal and otherworldly, straddling multiple vantage points simultaneously, synthesizing a full gamut of artifacts, from larger than life totems to colorful paintings and taut snares.

Bridget Mullen accumulates found objects, other artists’ discarded materials, and her own completed paintings, sculptures, and drawings—using these materials she creates new work. She investigates repetition as a device for understanding information, shortcomings of memory through drawing from memory, visual harmony and discordance using both chance and choice in her process, and physical and metaphysical impacts of impermanence using unstable materials and re-purposing completed work.

Matt Miller’s work involves painting on the polystyrene then treating the painting with chemicals. Whether it be painting with a brush, dripping, or splattering, the application of the paint becomes almost secondary to the result of the process. The action of painting is very important to him and is the record of his improvised movements and decisions. By chemically reducing the ground of the original painting he creates tactile surfaces and literal depth around and within the mark allowing the viewer a point of entry to the work.

Ross Tibbles’s work exists within the parameters of assemblage and are born from the continual movement, realignment and exchange of the visual conundrums that occur daily within his studio environment. His work appears to be casual or accidental and to have a lightness of touch and opens up the work and in some ways allows the viewer to form its completion.

May 3rd – 24th 2013
Opening May 3rd, 6-10 pm
566 Johnson ave (entrance on Stewart)
Bushwick, BK
Open Friday-Sunday 1-6PM or by appointment

Rachel Hayes - Nearly Neutral

Nearly Neutral

Curated by John O'Connor

'Big Basket' 48" x 48", steel and light gels.