25 July 2008 to 31 Aug 2008
Mon.,Wen.-Sat 12-8pm, Sun 11-7:pmClosed Tue.
Reception: Friday July 25th 6:30-10pm
Like the Spice Gallery
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Rodger Stevens Unshakable # 20 Pencil on Paper, 11x14 in
Forming Lines: Translations Between Drawing and Sculpture July 25th – August 31st, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday July 25th 6:30-10pm Artist’s Dinner: August 1st 8pm - reservations required
Like the Spice is pleased to present Forming Lines: Translations Between Drawing and Sculpture an exhibition examining the many relationships between sculpture and drawing. The show features works by Rachel Beach, Seth Cohen, Beka Goedde, Abby Goodman, Dean Goelz, Barry Hazard, Allie Rex, Marc André Robinson, Rodger Stevens, Kathleen Vance.
Translations between two and three-dimensional space, the works in this show explore the relationship between line and form. Drawings are both reference and original; sculptures are end product or study and vice versa. This exhibition acts as a Rosetta Stone for visual translation, exploring how drawings turn out when realized in three dimensions and the ways a sculpture's color, form and scale change when documented in two dimensions.
Illusion is almost always explicit in drawings: illusory space, illusory textures, imaginary places and impossible situations are all common factors in drawings. It is easier to forget the illusions in sculpture. From tricks of perspective to deceptive finishes, sculptures aren’t the honest hunks of matter we sometimes take them for.
One key difference between drawing and sculpture is that a drawing’s illusions are usually self-contained, staying on the paper. A sculpture however is always engaged in symbiosis with its environment. A sculpture can make a space seem smaller than it is, dominating everything around it. The same sculpture is dwarfed by an outdoor space, looking like an abandoned toy. The perception of sculpture is easily affected by its context and vice versa, conditions of space and light drastically change our experience of a sculpture whereas a drawing is fairly independent, forming its own context.
Rachel Beach was born in London, ON Canada in 1975. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2001 and her BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, Canada in 1998. Beach’s works have been described as “tough, precise and disciplined with a hard edged cheeriness.” Seth Cohen was born in Leicester, England in 1971. He received his MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003. Beka Goedde received her B.A. from Columbia University, Barnard College [Sept 2000—May 2004] with a concentration in Behavioral Neuroscience and Philosophy. Abby Goodman Received her MFA from Syracuse University in 2002, she was recently chosen by studio visit Magazine as there cover artists Dean Goelz was born in New York in 1978. He earned his Bachelors of fine arts from the Maryland Institute College of art in 2001. Barry Hazard earned is MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2008 and his BFA, from Tufts University in 1988. Allie Rex was born in Hartford, CT. She received her Masters of Fine Art from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2004. She creates drawing installations using mylar, paint, ink, pencils, vinyl and pins. Marc André Robinson received a MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2002. His work was recently exhibited in Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century New Museum of Contemporary Art and in UNTITLED (on paper) at Moti Hasson Gallery in Chelsea, NY. Rodger Stevens was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at the Parsons School of Design (NYC) and the School of Visual Arts (NYC). His sculptures, installations, and drawings have been exhibited in galleries and museums in New York, California, Paris and elsewhere since 1993. Kathleen Vance received her MFA from Hunter College in 2006. She has exhibited all over New York including the Betty Cuningham Gallery in Chelsea, NY.
