NYAB Event - “To Paint With Fire” Exhibition

“To Paint With Fire” Exhibition

Clay Space 1205

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TO PAINT WITH FIRE explores the creative process as freedom from one’s own Self, freedom to playfully create with shapes and colors, uncertain of what will be revealed. To recreate objects and places from the past, we only later discover the consequences of the memories, fears and fantasies these might stir up.

Featured are the works of Jennie Jieun Lee and David Bratton, two Greenpoint-based artists who both mix the materials and processes of painting and ceramics. Jennie Jieun Lee’s pieces are raw, spontaneous and naive, she draws inspiration from and sometimes recreates objects she made in her childhood. She paints in layers of under glazes and oxides and add lines of chalk and pencils. Thick, dripping glazes obscures some parts of the painting and highlights others, resulting in pieces with multiple meanings. She is simultaneously working on both functional and non functional forms in a rare and non bias manner. David Bratton, with this specific body of work, is reconnecting with the material of clay after a long period of focusing on painting. He has created a series of loose, ambiguous shapes that he finishes after firing with acrylic paint, silver leaf and nail polish. The soft, comfortable and fluffy is juxtaposed with the sharp, polished and highly finished. By combining the disciples of painting and ceramics, these two artists are creating multi-layered works that are maneuvering between the familiar, the unexpected, fear and wonder.

Jennie Jieun Lee, began her art career assisting her mother teaching arts and craft from their attic studio and organize shows in the local Library. She graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and have since been working in printmaking, photography, painting and ceramics. Her work has been exhibited in both the US and Europe and she currently has a studio at Clay Space 1205.

David Bratton graduated from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and studied at the Temple Rome Program in Italy. He has been awarded artist residencies at the Cooper Union, Vermont Studio Center, Millay Colony for the Arts and the Santa Fe Art Institute. His work has been exhibited in numerous venues in New York and Philadelphia. David has been a Teaching Artist for the Joan Mitchell Foundation since 2006.