Madelaine Shellaby "Which Stone a Fable"
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery
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SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery is pleased to present new work by Madelaine
Shellaby, entitled Which Stone a Fable. Archivist and artist, Shellaby is mounting the third exhibition from this quirky collection of her Pacific Archive of Stones and Stories. In her installation, Shellaby embraces ambiguity, and asks us to determine where we might best find fact or truth.
Historical stories are told beside those of friends and neighbors, and are presented with their stones, all of which tell of a perhaps primitive and most definitely curious connection to inanimate nature.
A ceramic bust of a celebrated donor. The recently unearthed photographs from a slave who rode the underground railroad. Drawings from the stone garden at Goat-In-the-Road, California. Artist books illustrating numerous stone narratives. Prints that place stones metaphorically in colorfully vivid memento mori. Malevolent
stones, scholar’s stones, Biblical stones, alchemist stones.
These objects, both found and made by the artist, invite viewers to construct an experience, one that gleams with nostalgia as well as fantasy.
Shellaby has maintained studios in California, Louisiana and New Jersey, and has exhibited in the U.S. and abroad. Educated in the Humanities and trained as a painter, today she teaches and makes art in a wide range of disciplines, including traditional and digital photography, sculpture, ceramics, installation, and multiple
editions of prints and books. She has received numerous grants from the Dodge Foundation, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Headlands Center for the Arts in California and an NEH teacher institute grant to name a few.
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Schedule
from January 06, 2009 to January 31, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-01-08 from 17:00 to 19:00