-Lester and Violet Hecht Memorial Award-
Upon graduating from the Tyler School of Art, I have been awarded the Lester and Violet Hecht Memorial Award for excellence in Printmaking.
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Exhibition of Recent Work January 8-22nd
We Welcome You to a Collection...
Opening Reception:
January 8, 2010
5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
1027 Ridge Ave, Second Floor
Philadelphia, PA, 19123
Gallery Hours: January 8-22nd
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday
... of Collections created by recent Tyler School of Art graduates, Jenna Eagan, Sarah Kodish-Eskind, Ashley Ivonne Limes, and Christina Smith. Sharing common ground as Printmakers, each artist gives variation to the method.
Jenna Eagan, Disposable
Eagan's textiles and wearable forms explore issues of warfare, and suggest the importance of adornment in war, and its use to intimidate and manipulate. Simultaneously, she hints at how we as civilians use clothing in a similar fashion. Her subjects include soldiers and warriors from varying war eras, such as Native Americans and colonial generals. Her etchings and screen prints on leather, and hand dyed natural fabrics make the materials she prints on just as important as the imagery used. She believes the organic nature of the materials to be an important part of the ephemeral nature of our "domestic armor". Her collection focuses on a series of vests, banners, and large scale prints on paper.
Sarah Kodish-Eskind, With You In Mind
With You In Mind is a series of documentary photographs. They show custom-designed temporary tattoos applied to the bodies of individuals who participated in a conversation process. The conversations explored people's personal symbols and ideas, their free associations. Sarah Kodish-Eskind designed and applied the drawings that represent these moments of conversation, the symbols we attach to our lives. They mimic the boldness of a real tattoo, but are really just a momentary reveal. There is an innate curiosity beneath this work: How do people describe the universal concepts of temporality and permanence in their lives? Conversation is temporary - how do you make it a little more permanent?
Ashley Ivonne Limes, Held
Limes' series of large scale silk screens and gouache painted banners focus on her longing to communicate a connection between herself and her environment. Influenced by the multi perspectival landscapes of traditional Japanese scrolls, the artist invents her own organizational systems of color and form to express her version of the world around her. Within this alternate perspective we encounter scenes and arrangements that the artist has imagined. Through these scenes and scapes, Limes seeks to remind us of what holds us together. She does this by focusing on three principle themes - the rock, the stick, and the rope - whose symbolic value evolve throughout the development of the series.
Christina Smith, The Winged Rabbit
Smith's series explores the relation of femininity and fertility in religious imagery and comments on the redundant nature of certain styles, such as the dramatic arabesque and romantically themed designs used during the Rococo era. She accomplished this through the primary method of silkscreening on fabric, adding subtle accents with needle and thread. The prints are then transformed into three dimensional trompe l'oeil structures, such as her canopy piece where one can lay on a floor of handmade and printed pillows to gaze up at playful winged creatures. The show focuses on a collection of various prints featuring winged rabbits and rabbit eared cherubs, as well as a small collection of assembled sculptures.
For questions or comments please contact us at question.collecting@gmail.com .
Opening Reception:
January 8, 2010
5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
1027 Ridge Ave, Second Floor
Philadelphia, PA, 19123
Gallery Hours: January 8-22nd
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday
... of Collections created by recent Tyler School of Art graduates, Jenna Eagan, Sarah Kodish-Eskind, Ashley Ivonne Limes, and Christina Smith. Sharing common ground as Printmakers, each artist gives variation to the method.
Jenna Eagan, Disposable
Eagan's textiles and wearable forms explore issues of warfare, and suggest the importance of adornment in war, and its use to intimidate and manipulate. Simultaneously, she hints at how we as civilians use clothing in a similar fashion. Her subjects include soldiers and warriors from varying war eras, such as Native Americans and colonial generals. Her etchings and screen prints on leather, and hand dyed natural fabrics make the materials she prints on just as important as the imagery used. She believes the organic nature of the materials to be an important part of the ephemeral nature of our "domestic armor". Her collection focuses on a series of vests, banners, and large scale prints on paper.
Sarah Kodish-Eskind, With You In Mind
With You In Mind is a series of documentary photographs. They show custom-designed temporary tattoos applied to the bodies of individuals who participated in a conversation process. The conversations explored people's personal symbols and ideas, their free associations. Sarah Kodish-Eskind designed and applied the drawings that represent these moments of conversation, the symbols we attach to our lives. They mimic the boldness of a real tattoo, but are really just a momentary reveal. There is an innate curiosity beneath this work: How do people describe the universal concepts of temporality and permanence in their lives? Conversation is temporary - how do you make it a little more permanent?
Ashley Ivonne Limes, Held
Limes' series of large scale silk screens and gouache painted banners focus on her longing to communicate a connection between herself and her environment. Influenced by the multi perspectival landscapes of traditional Japanese scrolls, the artist invents her own organizational systems of color and form to express her version of the world around her. Within this alternate perspective we encounter scenes and arrangements that the artist has imagined. Through these scenes and scapes, Limes seeks to remind us of what holds us together. She does this by focusing on three principle themes - the rock, the stick, and the rope - whose symbolic value evolve throughout the development of the series.
Christina Smith, The Winged Rabbit
Smith's series explores the relation of femininity and fertility in religious imagery and comments on the redundant nature of certain styles, such as the dramatic arabesque and romantically themed designs used during the Rococo era. She accomplished this through the primary method of silkscreening on fabric, adding subtle accents with needle and thread. The prints are then transformed into three dimensional trompe l'oeil structures, such as her canopy piece where one can lay on a floor of handmade and printed pillows to gaze up at playful winged creatures. The show focuses on a collection of various prints featuring winged rabbits and rabbit eared cherubs, as well as a small collection of assembled sculptures.
For questions or comments please contact us at question.collecting@gmail.com .
_You are Cordially Invited to attend, "Offerings" at Little Berlin Gallery_
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I have been collaborating with three artists: Nike Desis, Marie Elcin, and Tyler Kline, to create a piece to be displayed at the Little Berlin Gallery- Here are the details:
Offerings opens at Little Berlin on Friday, June 5th 2009 from 6 to 10 PM.
119 West Montgomery
Philadelphia PA, 19122
The exhibit is co-curated by Martha Savery and Alex Gartelmann and centers around a stunning feat of organizational chaos:
80 Philadelphia area artists, who happen to be strangers, working collaboratively in twenty groups.
This 10-week project includes participants from a variety of backgrounds, both established and emerging: visual artists, performers, writers, biologists and anthropologists. Loosely prompted by the concept of "offerings" and a budgetary limit of $50 per group, the artists set about getting to know each other and attempting to find common ground. Designed to allow the artists to push the boundaries of their studio practices, Offerings has the added bonus of exposing disparate artists within the groups to new resources right here in their own city. The main intent of Offerings has been to create new connections between artists here in Philadelphia. Each group will have had a unique experience. It is hoped that when this project comes to an end the participating artists will have new people to work and share thoughts with, new resources to aid or add to their making process, and the potential for new opportunities to show and share their work.
The show itself will feature performance, video work, drawings, photography and much more that is yet unknown to the show's organizers.
Teetering on the edge of impossibility, it is the most ambitious and surprising exhibition produced by Little Berlin so far.
For those of you who can't make it to the First Friday opening of Offerings,
we will also have a reception for this exhibit on Second Thursday, June 11, 6-10pm.
I have been collaborating with three artists: Nike Desis, Marie Elcin, and Tyler Kline, to create a piece to be displayed at the Little Berlin Gallery- Here are the details:
Offerings opens at Little Berlin on Friday, June 5th 2009 from 6 to 10 PM.
119 West Montgomery
Philadelphia PA, 19122
The exhibit is co-curated by Martha Savery and Alex Gartelmann and centers around a stunning feat of organizational chaos:
80 Philadelphia area artists, who happen to be strangers, working collaboratively in twenty groups.
This 10-week project includes participants from a variety of backgrounds, both established and emerging: visual artists, performers, writers, biologists and anthropologists. Loosely prompted by the concept of "offerings" and a budgetary limit of $50 per group, the artists set about getting to know each other and attempting to find common ground. Designed to allow the artists to push the boundaries of their studio practices, Offerings has the added bonus of exposing disparate artists within the groups to new resources right here in their own city. The main intent of Offerings has been to create new connections between artists here in Philadelphia. Each group will have had a unique experience. It is hoped that when this project comes to an end the participating artists will have new people to work and share thoughts with, new resources to aid or add to their making process, and the potential for new opportunities to show and share their work.
The show itself will feature performance, video work, drawings, photography and much more that is yet unknown to the show's organizers.
Teetering on the edge of impossibility, it is the most ambitious and surprising exhibition produced by Little Berlin so far.
For those of you who can't make it to the First Friday opening of Offerings,
we will also have a reception for this exhibit on Second Thursday, June 11, 6-10pm.
_Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Show June 5-7th_
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I will be exhibiting and selling my work along with Kylie Adams, Sarah Kodish-Eskind and Scott Holford. We will be a part of one of the largest Fine Arts Festivals in the country. Please come out and show your support, Rittenhouse square is a lovely place to take a stroll, and there are plenty of gelato options to go along with the beautiful weather we are expecting.
We will be situated in the center of the square.
The hours are as follows:
Friday June 5th- 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. (Same day as "Offerings" opening!)
Saturday June 6th- 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday June 7th- 11 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Find out more details here:
[http://www.link.com[http://www.rittenhousesquarefineartshow.org/]
Hope to see your lovely faces,
Ashley
I will be exhibiting and selling my work along with Kylie Adams, Sarah Kodish-Eskind and Scott Holford. We will be a part of one of the largest Fine Arts Festivals in the country. Please come out and show your support, Rittenhouse square is a lovely place to take a stroll, and there are plenty of gelato options to go along with the beautiful weather we are expecting.
We will be situated in the center of the square.
The hours are as follows:
Friday June 5th- 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. (Same day as "Offerings" opening!)
Saturday June 6th- 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday June 7th- 11 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Find out more details here:
[http://www.link.com[http://www.rittenhousesquarefineartshow.org/]
Hope to see your lovely faces,
Ashley
