Scission, 2022 | Benjamin Long | Oil, alkyd, and graphite on Dibond
On View September 13 – October 21, 2024
Opening Reception | Friday, September 13 | 6:00p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Coffee Break: Artist Talks | Saturday, September 28 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Coffee Break: Artist Talks | Saturday, October 19 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00p.m.
Featured Artists: Bobbie Diamond Adams, Anna Bockrath, Benjamin Long & Mick Ricereto
ARTISTS
Bobbie Diamond Adams, Printmaking and Papermaking
Tile Gallery
“I like to provide hints of subject matter in my titles, but leave specific narrative to the imagination of the viewer.”
– Bobbie Diamond Adams
Bobbie Diamond Adams’ printmaking and papermaking works are abstract in concept.
From the hints of green that emerge from a sea of black textures in one piece, to the stillness and quiet of the lone green ellipse in another, her artistic eye is evident in the connections she makes amongst seemingly disparate or unrelated elements. The process of printmaking and papermaking are both labor-intensive and meditative to Diamond Adams, often layering over and reworking pieces for extensive periods of time. Following an intuitive approach, she notes “I use many different plates, and interweave many layers of transparent ink, assembling and embellishing, as well as overprinting.”
Bobbie Diamond Adams’ work is on display in our Tile gallery.
Anna Bockrath, Interdisciplinary Art
Community Arts Gallery
“Though weaving, screen printing, trimming, and folding, I utilize techniques that lend themselves to transformation through accumulations of repeated gestures.”
– Anna Bockrath
Inspired by poetry, mythology, and her own personal history, Anna Bockrath explores the complicated concepts of loss, care, and time through her interdisciplinary work. Bockrath’s creations have an airy and ephemeral quality about them, achieved by using both materials and processes that allow for light and air to permeate. Driven by a fascination with process and materiality, her works are created through acts of iteration, layering, and repetition. This act of repetition in her creative practice parallels the repetitive cycles she experiences in her own life, citing “I relate this use of repetition to my own experience of dealing with loss and the repetitive cycles that are entangled with grief.”
Anna Bockrath’s work is on view in our Community Arts gallery.
Benjamin Long, Painting
Kellner Gallery
“Please just look and let your eyes have the experience…words can take a break this time.”
– Benjamin Long
Benjamin Long’s oil paintings are colorful, punchy, and both visually and conceptually intriguing.
Each piece comes with its own complex, almost dream-like composition, which leaves the viewer yearning for context. Recurring motifs of snowman-like figures, beehives, and lit cigarettes and pipes give the work an illustrative quality, reminiscent of the work of the late artist Philip Guston. Long acknowledges the ambiguity of his narratives, noting “maybe someday I will figure out a way to translate a personal visual language into a written one” and invites the viewer to derive their own meaning from the clues provided instead.
Benjamin Long’s paintings are featured in our Kelner gallery.
Mick Ricereto, Painting
Book Room Gallery
“I work in response to our disordered, beautiful and sometimes crumbling civilization.”
– Mick Ricereto
From dilapidated brick storefronts, to rusted fences and street signs, Mick Ricereto encapsulates the decay of the urban landscape in his intricate watercolor works. Ricereto uses watercolor to build each landscape layer by layer, a lengthy and intensive process that acts as a metaphor to the civil environment he captures: each layer is built upon the last. The fragility of the watercolor medium, he notes, doubles as “a nod to society’s delicate balance of survival.” This “tensionless state of constant entropy”, as described by Ricereto, is expressed through his paintings in both observed realism and idealized moments of repose.
Mick Ricereto’s Corner’s Report is being exhibited in our Book Room gallery.