Gallery talk with artists and curator: 7:15 pm Gallery hours: Thursdays & Saturdays, 12-5 pm Exhibition runs November 16-January 5
The first in a series of bi-annual curated exhibitions spotlighting the work of artists featured in UCP’s Studio Residency Program,* /Emerald City/* includes new work by three current studio residents: Dane Bonner, Amanda Gehin, and Bob Glinn. Curated by CSF Programs Administrator Jared Panick, */Emerald City/* is built on ideas of material deception, ideal beauty, and fantasy. Alongside individual works, the exhibition will include a collaborative, site-specific installation.
No stranger to deception in his work and materials, the paintings of Dane Bonner appear as over-indulged layers of color and sheen soaked into canvas. Bonner utilizes a myriad of tools to create seemingly non-deliberate marks and stains, which are in fact the product of a patient, calculated process. While Bonner’s “paintings” may appear as glistening fields of organic pattern, their materiality speaks to industrialization through the presence of motor oil, oxidization, and toxic dyes. Artist and interior architect Bob Glinn employs a process where geometric forms and patterns generate from preceding mathematically-based actions. His two-dimensional and three-dimensional works attempt to reveal a type of ideal beauty and form, embedded within a formula-based method of construction. The work of Amanda Gehin can be seen as an exploration of an imaginary land inhabited by jewels, fanciful characters, sweeping landscapes and adventure. Gehin’s works on paper are vibrantly decorative and tender illustrations of the landscapes and journeys through which a semi-autobiographical character navigates.
