“Between” is a Fine Art Senior Thesis Exhibition by Adrian Harris, Cutter Hume, Jacquelynn Barli, and Makary Malinouski.
Please come to the Opening Reception March 21, 2014, 6-8pm. The exhibition is open March 21- 28.
Gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday 12-3pm and Saturday 11am-4pm.
"Between" is
an exploration of ways of perception and paradigms through the physical
processes of art making. Interpreting, observing, representing, seeing, touching,
forming, moulding are the actions that weave a thread through their works. Each
of the artists creates between states, whether it is through abstraction and
representation, touch and sight, standard and alternative, or figure and
ground.
About the artists:
Cutter Hume's sculptures are about
the metaphorical “running the gauntlet” and arriving at a similar yet different
conclusion. These works serve as a way
to cheat said gauntlet and come prepared with the needed knowledge to beat
it. Cutter seeks to explore this
circumventing of standard thought through the use these objects.
Makary Malinouski depicts objects
on a canvas cloth. In and of themselves, there is no inherent power to the mundane objects,
but rather the power is found in placing them and representing on an illusory
space, in which everything that is depicted, is done so by the choice of
the artist. The presence of the unpainted white canvas serves as a constant
reminder of this illusory quality and detaches one of the containment of a still-life
through inward rather than outward means. The video serves as a
dematerialization of the process, underlying the ephemeral quality of the
space, while suggesting a more objective plane in comparison to painting.
Adrian Harris makes work to address
the fluctuation of meaning and meaninglessness within our experiences. The
abstract forms he paints are suggestions of representational images which the
viewer uses to interpret meaning. Each viewer interprets different representations;
where one sees a child at play another sees an animal eating, then both come to
a conclusion of what these depictions could mean. However, it is often the case
with Adrian’s work that neither the depictions nor their meanings actually exist;
it’s just paint. His intention is to address the role subjectivity plays in the
creation and interpretation of meaning
Jacquelynn Barli’s body of work
explores concepts of connection through ambiguous figural abstractions of
touch. Jacquelynn chose a group of women who have touched her life, using an
image of their face as well as her own to create each figure. Each piece is
built with strong textures and layers. The intention being to show the physical
interaction between artists hand and the textured surface as well as the viewer
exploring the materials and underlying layers up close and personal.
