Rai Alexandra was born in Caracas, Venezuela. A vagabond by nature, she has lived and worked in Los Angeles, New York, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic and India, absorbing life experiences and cultures all along the way. Her art reflects her wanderlust: Boldly colorful, multi-layered, emotive and textured. Moved by the groundbreaking experimentation of the great Abstract Expressionists of the mid-Twentieth Century, Rai’s quest to go beyond painting’s traditional materials pushed her to explore colored paper’s possible transformation into “paint”, using a hybrid technique of hand-torn collage and assemblage. Rai currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Addie Langford lives and works in Detroit. Langford’s practice draws on her varied background in painting, ceramics, drawing, fabrics, and structural influences from architecture and craft. Her work is marked by layering and uneven densities in relation to the support, and a hyper-exposure of materials to subtle natural forces (water, pressure, layering, erosion, thinning, thickening), not in order to destroy, but to form, warp or shape. Her works archive the subtle deformation of natural and imposed stresses. She completed her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in ceramics after a BFA in architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2006-07 she was a Fulbright Fellow in Madrid, Spain, where she conducted research on tapestry in relation to contemporary collage. Drawing upon her Fulbright research she completed and exhibited a body of large scale mixed media drawings, Slow Knots, in 2007 in Madrid. Since then, her practice has focused on painting, mixed media collage, and ceramics. She is crafts and collections editor and co-founder of Detroit Research, a Journal for post-studio art, choreography, ceramics, music, performance, and critical theory. Her solo exhibition of paintings and ceramic vessels, A Timeless Elsewhere, can be seen at the Simone DeSousa Gallery in Detroit through October 9.
Oasa DuVerney is a Queens-born visual and performance artist based in Brooklyn. Her solo exhibitions include MYLFwoks Revenge, Momenta Art, NYC (2013); Superheroes and Antiheroes, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY (2012); and Wired, United Nations, NYC (2006). Her group exhibitions include Thanks For Writing, 601 Artspace, NYC (2014); Me Love You Long Time, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA (2013); Through A Glass Darkly, Postmasters Gallery, NYC (2012); Crown Heights Gold, Skylight Gallery, NYC (2011); and Planet of Slums, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ (2010). She has been an artist-in-residence at Rush Arts Gallery (2016), Smack Mellon Gallery (2014-2015), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2012-2013) and other sought-after locations.
Kate Fauvell is a visual artist from New York City. Her work explores all that makes us human. Currently she is using collage, audio and film to create a series of installations that explore memory specifically within the home. The idea that, “ the house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind”. Kate visually tells stories that would otherwise go untold.
Kate received a BFA from SUNY Binghamton and an MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After finishing her MFA she returned to New York and moved to Brooklyn where she has been living, creating, and exhibiting her work ever since. Just this past year Kate has shown at BRIC Art House, AIR Gallery, and LIU’s Selena Gallery as well as being selected as a part of Bombay Sapphire’s Artisan Series to exhibit work at Scope Art Fair at Art Basel in Miami. In the fall of 2016 Kate will be showing at Rush Gallery in Chelsea, as well as Little Field and Happy Lucky No. 1 Galleries in Brooklyn.
Kate has held residencies at the Studios at Mass MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, in Troy at CAC Woodside and in Bern,Switzerland at PRGR with funding from the US Swiss Embassy.
Kate was selected to be in LMCC and Creative Capital’s Artist’s Summer Institute, Mass MOCA’s Assets for Artists Program, LMCC’s Basic Finance For Artist’s and Creative Capital’s Seven Elements of Strategic Marketing. She has also received grants from the Meyer Foundation, Rauchenberg Foundation and Change Inc. to name a few.
Coming from a family of metal welders, LeRone Wilson learned at an early age through proximity and practice about malleability of materials. Witnessing the bend of a metal form through varied methods of manipulation, Wilson was inspired to bring this technique to his artwork. His encaustic sculptures have been layered, sculpted, and formed into wonderfully organic multidimensional sculpture-paintings.
Wilson begins his process of encaustic sculpting by melting and building layers of encaustic wax. Working with a myriad of geometric forms, whether they’re squares, expanded lines, or circles, the shape of the piece determines the layering and carving process. The natural rhythm of the process is manifest in the organic nature of the piece: the works emerge as live forms, mimicking textures in nature.
Color is just as much an inherent part of Wilson’s painstaking process. Wilson melts down encaustic drops of color to achieve the deep tones and primary colors that make up his work. Finding inspiration for his palette anywhere from the streets of his Harlem neighborhood to characteristics in individuals, Wilson uses color, and sometimes, the lack thereof, to express deep emotions.
Wilson’s titles exemplify the life force that is carried within each piece. Phrases such as Rest Finds Grace or Eternal Passage evoke feelings of permanence through a material that, while at first pliable, hardens to an inflexible shell. The simultaneous strength and softness of the material is what compels Wilson to push the medium to its ultimate breaking point, because right before that precipice lies the work’s greatest strength.
Wilson’s work has been featured in Museum of Biblical Art, and Phiillips de Pury Auction House, he was the winner of the 2011 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series at Scope Miami, a nominee for the Louis Tiffany Biennial Award and winner of Best In Show at the 19th Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Exhibition. His works are in several important private collections and has been featured in publications, including Architectural Digest, The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, among many others.
EDUCATION
1994 University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art Design, BFA
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
SOLO Exhibitions
2015 Universal Journey, Gallery nine5, New York, NY
2000 Eruption, Samuel Akainyah Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 You See My View Twice, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
GROUP Exhibitions
2015 Wild, Gallery Nine5, New York, NY
Flux Art Fair, New York, NY
2014 Escape, Sol Studio Gallery, New York, NY
Black and White, Art in Flux New York, NY
Cutlog Art Fair, New York, NY
Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, New York, NY
Harem Biennale, New York, NY
Genesis, Gallery Guichard, Chicago, IL
2013 Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Art, Museum of Biblical
Art, New York, NY
2012 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Winner Exhibition, Rush Arts Gallery,
New York, NY
2011 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Scope Miami, Miami, FL
Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, New York, NY
H.O.A.S.T, New York, NY
Audemars Piguet, New York, NY
Sasha Finelli Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Now Contemporary Auction Show, Phillips dePury, New York, NY
Red Rooster Harlem, New York, NY
2009 Overlay, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Staff Show, Phillips DePury, New York, NY
2007 Forms of Abstraction, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Affordable Art Fair, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, NY
Forms of Abstraction, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, NY
Forms of Abstraction, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL
Seven Voices, Seven Views, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Menagerie, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
Bank of New York, New York, NY
National Black Art Show, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, NY
Kankeleeba Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Esquire Downtown at Astor Place, Jennifer Post Design/Calvin Klein,
New York, NY
A Tasting, Kim Foster Gallery, New York
2003 Union Pacific Restaurant, New York, NY
Art Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL
National Black Art Show, Kankeleba Gallery, New York,NY
Five Sublime, White Box Gallery, Alisoun Meehan curator, New York, NY
2002 Sugar Craze, A Taste of Art, New York, NY
Dining Haul: Sweets, New York, NY
Blackbird Artist Series, Blackbird Restaurant, Chicago, IL
2000 Group Show, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL
ARC GalleryRegional VII, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Emerging Artists Showcase, 900 Century Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Nineteenth Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Competition
and Exhibition, African American useum, Dallas,
1993 Spin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Spices Gallery, Chicago, IL
Spencer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kent Law School, Chicago, IL
AWARDS
2012 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Overall Winner, Scope Miami
2003 Nominee, 2003 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, New York, NY
2000 Honorable Mention, ARC Gallery Regional VII, Chicago, IL
1999 Best In Show, Nineteenth Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Competition
about_
interested in the beauty and order that follow chaos, mishaps and accidents, gabriel j. shuldiner incorporates found objects and diverse castaway materials as departure points in his unique exploration of 21st century painting and object_making… working within self_imposed restraints and recurring themes, gabriel j. shuldiner creates physically powerful, s[r]eductively delicate wall sculptures that trigger both immediate engagement and visceral reaction. interested in the ‘subtlety of difference produced through repetition’ and the ‘implied nuanced histories’, of the oft_overlooked, his work is equal parts painterly, gestural, intentioned and spontaneous… obsessed with the many disparate associations assigned to black, gabriel j. shuldiner references his work bruteminimalism™ and his custom proprietary black variant, based on the element carbon: postapocalypticblack™.
a native new yorker, gabriel j. shuldiner was born and raised in the borough of manhattan. he holds a ba from new york university and an mfa from parsons the new school for design (2009). he was selected by the bronx museum of the arts artist in the marketplace emerging artist program (2010-2011), as well as by the elizabeth foundation for the arts studio residency program (2012-2016).
his bruteminimalist™ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at select galleries, museums and avant garde boutiques including: maison gerard (nyc), new museum (nyc), the museum at fit (nyc), sikkema jenkins & co gallery (nyc), rusharts (nyc), theodoreart (nyc), hotoveli (nyc), grey area (nyc), white box (nyc), christopher henry gallery (nyc), sundaram tagore gallery (nyc), the bronx museum of the arts (nyc), wave hill cultural center (nyc), newhouse center for contemporary art (nyc), the kitchen (nyc), odd (nyc), occulter (nyc), seven new york (nyc), bblessing (nyc), david richard gallery (sante fe), litvak contemporary (tel aviv), indianapolis museum of contemporary art (indianapolis), and church boutique (los angeles), among others.
gabriel j. shuldiner’s self_professed hybridsculpturalpaintings™ have garnered much press as well, including: artsy, paper magazine, interview magazine, artforum, architizer, and artfagcity, among others.
gabriel j. shuldiner lives and works in manhattan’s west chelsea, where he currently maintains his studio.
about_2
disrupting avant garde boundaries with his wearable work, having graced the runways of new york fashion week on multiple occasions, as well as architectually [re]imagining entrance and office space for manhattan based tech companies in his signature avantdark™ aesthetic, gabriel j. shuldiner cites ‘sense, reference and implication ‘ as being the only true difference(s).
currently in development is gabriel j. shuldiner’s most ambitious on_going project to date… the creation of his own unique black variant: a no_voc non_toxic eco_friendly patented proprietary formula custom pigment he has already deemed postapocalypticblack™…
about_3
growing up in new york city, gabriel was always experimenting with many different creative entrepreneurial outlets. as a small child, he would obsessively cover his bedroom walls with drawings and sketches, which he would then sell through his first company: the art mall®
gabriel later discovered experimental street photography, finding an innate affinity and strange calm in the black abstracted cracks voids and surfaces of his everyday urban environment landscape and infrastruture. utilizing new york city as canvas, this work eventually gave way to a short stint with graffiti, a foray into the world of manhattan’s infamous public_access television, an underground t_shirt company and ongoing street art project, all collectivelly known as pathetic®.
moved by an intense deep love passion for music, specifically heavy beats and experimental sounds, gabriel was initially propelled toward a career in the business side of the record industry, eventually finding a home in a&r and marketing for several record companies. but gabriel’s entrepreneurial spirit quickly rose again, founding his own music_oriented consulting branding marketing management company, aptly titled patheticproduKtions™, as well as his own uber_conceptual record label, also known as pathetic®.
by the late 90’s, gabriel j. shuldiner had established himself as a true new york city cult brand, but it wasn’t until a few years on, through a confluence of circumstances which included the brief manipulation of [black] paint, that he realized he had finally found his true artistic voice medium and calling: paint. shortly thereafter, gabriel made the decision to cease all of his previous ventures and [re]turn to his original childhood passion. he has been painting full_time ever since…
born lives works: manhattan, new york city
education
2007 – 09
mfa parsons the new school for design, new york
2005 – 07
school of visual arts, summer residency, new york
1992 – 1996
ba new york university, gallatin school of individualized study, new york
residencies and awards
2013 – present
elizabeth foundation for the arts, studio residency, new york
2010 – 11
bronx museum, artist in the marketplace, aim 30, new york
2007 – 09
parsons graduate dean’s scholarship, parsons the new school for design, new york
2007
contemporary art network fellowship award, selected by barbara macadam, new york
selected exhibitions
2016
replay: gallery selections, david richard gallery, santa fe
2015
holiday hijinks, theodoreart, brooklyn
holiday group show, david richard gallery, santa fe
art miami, david richard gallery, miami
international art fair, maisøn gerard, park avenue armory, new york
dark matter, litvak contemporary, tel aviv
parsons alumni exhibition, sheila c. johnson design center, parsons the new school for design, new york
fashion underground: the world of susanne bartsch, the museum at fit, new york
brash, brute, beautiful, on10, maisøn gerard, new york
the black arts volume1, curated by ekg labs, outlaw arts space, new york
postapocalypticBLACK™, david richard gallery, santa fe
postapocalypticBLACK™, art miami, david richard gallery, new york
speculum speculorum: mirror of mirrors, curated by mary dinaburg and howard rutkowski, elizabeth foundation for the arts, new york
subminimal mayhem, hotoveli, new york
2014
triangulation, synthetic zero, bronx art space, new york
frozen karaoke, curated by sarah schmerler, outlet brooklyn, new york
one thousand hours, quantum networks, new york
little red school house art auction, openhouse mulberry, new york
postapocalypticBLACK™, the new museum, new york
i can do dat, curated by danny simmons and oshun layne, rush arts gallery, new york
postcards from the edge, luhring augustine, new york
2013
#blackbeach, curated by derrick cruz and juan puntes, white box, new york
alumni reunion exhibtion, parsons the new school for design, new york
nurture art benefit, bernarducci meisel gallery, new york
soot and stars, turn gallery, new york
colab props, colab-projects, new york
neo_gothic renderings from hell, odd new york, new york
2012
hymn to beauty, hotoveli, new york
americana, curated by kyle de woody, grey area soho, new york
body, curated by kyle de woody, grey area soho, new york
in that way or another, reverse lab, reverse space, new york
look sharp, galerie protégé, new york
2011
rising 2012, curated by kipton cronkite, scoop, new york
animamous art salon, salomon contemporary arts, new york
the end, curated by jason leblond, christopher henry gallery, new york
bronx calling!, aim biennial, bronx museum of the arts, new york
bronx calling! aim biennial, wave hill, new york
iced, curated by patrick grenier, newhouse center for contemporary art, new york
informal relations, curated by scott grow, indianapolis museum of contemporary art
2010
darkness, secret city, new york
curate nyc, curated by danny simmons and brian tate, rush arts gallery, new york
rising 2011, curated by kipton cronkite, kiptonart, andrew martin ltd, new york
abstract intentions, curated by david gibson, school of visual arts, new york
500 below, curated by brian petro, vastu dc, dc
black.mash, jodi arnold, new york
2009
parsons mfa thesis show, curated by, the kitchen, new york
small . medium . large, eva new york, new york
le new black, curated by brian petro, vastu dc, dc
have you ever thought about utopia, feinberg projects, new york
global identity: through our eyes, freie universitat berlin, deutsches haus, new york
2008
something to talk about in therapy, curated by barbara macadam, new york
dialogues, curated by simone douglas and anthony aziz, parsons the new school for design, new york
2007
night of 1000 drawings, artists space, new york
postcards from the edge, james cohan gallery, New York
the all smoking art opening, curated by dan levenson, new general catalogue, new york
2006
blender, curated by cordy ryman, sundaram tagore gallery, new york
little red school house art auction, i_20 gallery, new york
My work is concerned with bereavement: the tension between public and private grief, social customs and material culture of mourning, and objects as repositories of memory which both retain and transmit meaning. Among the media I work with are human hair, clothing, and found photographs.
After a Fashion is a series of fabric pieces made from clothing worn to funerals. Inspired by a personal experience with a dress I wore to my mother’s funeral and could never bring myself to put on again, I asked family and friends whether they too had clothing too tainted by association to wear. Slowly I began collecting clothes–sometimes decades old–that had languished unworn in the backs of closets, too distressing to wear and too sentimental to just throw away. Handling these testaments of loss is a powerful experience, as every garment comes with a story. Joining them together allows for the creation of a symbolic location in which otherwise private griefs become public and communal.
Education
2003 BA (Religion) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 (forthcoming) Medium: Black, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, New York
2016 (forthcoming) More Beyond, Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2016 Introductions, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Divining Line, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Tenth Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Small Works Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Engaging Stepfamilies, Continental Shift Seattle, Seattle, Washington
2014 People’s Choice Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2016 (forthcoming) The Less Said, The Better, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Death in the Living Room, Society for Domestic Museology, New York, New York
2015 Transpositions, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Artist Talks
2015 Society for Domestic Museology, New York, New York
2015 Delve Presents: Art and Death, Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn, New York
2015 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
As a child growing up in New York City Parris was exposed to various cultural identity’s melding together through art, music and lifestyle. The scene in the 80s and all around NYC was saturated with invention through creativity adding to the allure and the identity of the artist.
In his late teens Parris began working at Marvel Comics as a photo tech, while gaining character drawing skills and comic story writing experience. It was a great time, Parris would work and hangout with some of the pioneers of comic art and story at that time.
In the late 90s Parris started a hand-made jewelry company named “Blufork’s NYC”. Catering to such clients as Barney’s Co-op, Anna Sui and Patricia Fields. Parris says, “Creating hand made jewelry from wood, semi precious stones, copper and silver colored with metallic paints and pigments. Truly brings me back to my earliest understanding of how to create Art from materials found on the earth.”
At the same time and as a source of gaining exposure and selling his canvases, Parris began selling his works on the streets of Soho and the East Village. He befriended and collaborated with some of the most talented painters, artists and musicians of the underground scene at the time.
Parris found a venue to create and share his ideas of art, being a part of the art world independently and gaining a name among the underground.
Parris now concentrates on remaining active at the art fairs in NY, Miami and gallery exhibitions at home and abroad. In the last few years Parris has had the pleasure of collaborating on art projects in East Africa, India and Europe, while living and working in Brooklyn NY.
Etchings on Canvas Series
With this series of works I call “Etchings on Canvas” I wanted to explore the idea of using numerical and astrological symbols mixed with the poetry and catch phrases I’ve created.
BLACKENED dwells deep into the idea of compliance, mathematically counted and numbered, added and subtracted through life till death.
With INVISIBLE I explore the science of living of the grid, or as the artist lives underground. Free to question existence through creativity, the rights and wrongs of politics and the multitude of unanswered questions from society interpreted through the many mediums of the artist.
APPROPRIATE MEASURES touches on the topic of racial separation/segregation, not as a people but through the media and the many devices of fear used. Devices used to Blackout the senses.
The natural pigments used to build the texture before etching, are taken from plants and flowers, mixed with a Babul tree resin and acrylic to add longevity to the artworks.
Parris Jaru
59 Hart st Brooklyn NY 11206
646 469 9269
AUCTIONS:
-The Giving Back Foundation Auction, NYC 2014
-The Drama League of America Auction, NYC 2012
-The Drama League of America Auction, NYC 2011
ART FAIRS:
-Art Expo, Pier 39, Chelsea 2015
-The Contemporary Art Fair, Chelsea 2014
-The Fountain Art Fair, NYC 2014
-The Contemporary Art Fair, Jacob Javits Center, NYC 2011
EXHIBITIONS:
-Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn NY 2015
-Clover Gallery, Brooklyn NY 2015
-Saint Josephs College, Brooklyn NY 2015
-Under Minerva Gallery, Park Slope, Brooklyn 2014
-The Next Gallery, Soho NYC 2013
-Empire Hotel, NYC 2013
-Miwa-Alex Gallery, East Chelsea NYC 2012
-Andrea Zarr Gallery, Chelsea NYC 2012
-Midoma Art & Boutique, NYC 2010
-Chelsea Art Museum, Chelsea NYC 2009
-The Painting Center, Soho NYC 2009
-Essential Art Show, Chelsea NYC 2009
-Rush Arts Chelsea, Chelsea NYC 2009
-Jajo Gallery, New Jersey 2009
-The Black Ink Gallery, Harlem NY 2008
-Soho Framing Gallery, Soho NYC 2007
-Village Arts Gallery, East Village NYC 2007
COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS:
-Traveled to the North and South of India to collaborate on a film project: “A Trail of Pigment” 2014.
-Curated a GAP Art Collective group exhibition, Pune India 2014.
-Traveled to East Africa to collaborate on a film project “Imagination is Creation” 2012-2013.
-Nafsi Art Collective Niarobi, Kenya 2013
-One Love Community Art Center Awasa, Ethiopia 2013
-UAACC Community Art Center Arusha, Tanzania 2012
-Brooklyn to Marseille Art Collective Marseille, France 2013
-Street Arts of Paris, France 2013
Many daily struggles are tied to financial limitations to start with, however not every social issue should be boiled down to a worthy buzz-word simply to catch attention. We live in a time of extreme media distractions that reduce many social issues to white noise. As an American-born Haitian female who tirelessly exerts herself to reach out and open the proverbial door, I question the constant “cut-paste-collage” reality we endure, just staying afloat according to our society’s standards. I was raised with the mindset that hard work and education open doors; however, we all find ourselves accruing growing debt, gambling on careers, just to end up on the low end of the socioeconomic status pyramid.
As an artist, I create a series of narratives which document our time, my own timeline demonstrating our constant striving within today’s society. Taking into account culture, language and social aspects, my work depicts our endangered existence. Forsaking high-end materials from art supply stores in favor of more everyday materials, repurposed goods, found objects or “clean trash,”
I transform our social dilemmas into abstracted imagery that reflects our long-growing list of struggles, and distill them into art. Via multi-media, I have translated my observations through a series of works which are both figurative and conceptual, architectural yet abstract.
EXHIBITIONS (Group)
Harlem Art Walking Tour — piece: “Tic Tic Boom”
Casa Frela Gallery October 2014 — New York, NY
Sanctuary — installations: “Processing Word v.2” & “Juxtaposition Ignored”
Yendor Productions October 2014 — Newark, NJ
The Big Show — installation: “struc·ture·less·ness”
Art Factory October – December 2014 — Paterson, NJ
Artists on Main — installation: “res·o·nate”
Darress Theatre September 2014 — Boonton, NJ
LIMITED EDITION — piece: “The Hierarchy of the Etymology, Corrupted”
Index Art Center, curated by Newark Print Shop July 2014 — Newark, NJ
Existence: Expressions of Identity — pieces: “Ashes, Ashes” & “Patiently Out of Element”
Blue Door Art Center July 2014 — Yonkers, NY
APT. 3L
Bushwick Open Studios 2014 — Bushwick, NY
Paterson Art Walk — installations:
“The Legacies Bestowed, Reduced” & “To Measure Unseen Weight”
Art Factory 2014 — Paterson, NJ
Strong Women V
Jewish Museum of New Jersey 2014 — Newark, NJ
Dreams Before Sleeping
Gallery Aferro October – November 2013 — Newark, NJ
Stigmata — installation: “You can’t move it; it’s too heavy.” YouTube link
Yendor Productions October 2013 — Newark, NJ
Intersection
Index Art Center October 2013 — Newark, NJ
windows@walsh6.0
Walsh Gallery August 2013 — Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
ArtReach XXI + Newark New Media
City Without Walls June 2013 — Newark, NJ
Nine Bodies
James Howe Gallery April 2013 — Union, NJ
Rites of Spring
Morris Arts March 2013 — Morristown, NJ
Black Ink
Nave Gallery February 2013 — Somerville, MA
The Bespoke Curator: Art Snack Registry
Space On White December 2012 — New York, NY
Metro 29
City Without Walls November 2012 — Newark, NJ
Oculus: Transformations
Newark Open Doors October 2012 — Newark, NJ
The Material Girls
Dumbo Arts Festival 2012 September 2012 — Brooklyn, NY
Metalsmith Student League 2nd Annual Exhibition
Nancy Dryfoos Gallery June 2012 — Union, NJ
Index at PAW
Paterson Art Walk April 2012 — Paterson, NJ
Strong Women
Newark School of the Arts March 2012 — Newark, NJ
Art Cycle
Index Art Center March 2012 — Newark, NJ
Silent Auction
Index Art Center May 2011 — Newark, NJ
Metalsmith Student League Exhibition
Vaughn-Eames Student Art Gallery May 2011 — Union, NJ
Kean University Student Show
James Howe Gallery March 2011 — Union, NJ
Tek’ tanik
Gallery Aferro March 2010 — Newark, NJ
Help Haiti Art Exhibition & Fundraiser
Newark Art Supply February 2010 — Newark, NJ
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Metalsmith Student League 2nd Annual Exhibition
Nancy Dryfoos Gallery June 2012 — Union, NJ
Metalsmith Student League Exhibition
Vaughn-Eames Student Art Gallery May 2011 — Union, NJ
Charlotte Becket lives and works in New York City where she is an Associate Professor at Pace University. She attended Hunter College’s MFA program and received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Solo and two person exhibitions include Valentine Gallery NY, Crisp Gallery in London, LEAP in Berlin, Taxter and Spengemann in New York City as well as group exhibitions at Gazelli Art House in London, Gasser and Grunert, Anna Kustera, NY Studio Gallery, Passerby and the Invitational Exhibition Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City. She has been invited to lecture on her work at various galleries and universities and has been the recipient of grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Tony Smith Foundation, and the Verizon Foundation. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, TimeOut London, ArtForum, and Art in America, among others. She was recently included in, 100 Artists, a compendium of interviews with 100 international contemporary artists by Francesca Gavin.
Artist Statement
Our environment is one where automation, information, consumerism, progress and erosion are collapsed into a muddle that both celebrates and questions its status quo. The mechanical sculptures I construct explore the complexities of this ambivalence through errant machinery, polished forms that collapse and resume composure, and illuminated projections or screens that depict only the looping and chattering mechanisms behind them. The work aims to imbue these absurd and irrational scenarios with a pathos, humor and aesthetic seduction so as to draw out a conversation about our own relationship to speed, progress, technology and survival within perpetually fracturing and rearranging circumstances. The work’s looping, rhythmic motion transforms the sculptures from motorized machines to figural abstractions or landscapes. The mechanization in these pieces work in opposition to what we demand of the mechanized world around us. It seeks to offer something else, something that is slow and inefficient but more closely aligned with our selves.