“Post Partum Party” Exhibition
Rhombus Space
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Post Partum Party is an exhibition of works by artists whose additional role as parents becomes a creative fulcrum that informs their work at times consciously and intentionally, and at other times sub-consciously and intuitively. The artists in this exhibition explore the fertile territory of the changing parameters and boundaries that come with having to parent children while being active studio artists in NYC. What the work makes evident, is that instead of mourning the loss of self-sovereignty and individual autonomy, these artists embrace their multifaceted lives and push up against the parameters of being parents to make provocative, profound, and fearlessly honest artwork.
Qiana Mestrich and Marni Kotak reference their own biography through a documentary approach. Mestrich uses beautiful color and composition in her photographs that juxtapose critical concepts, while Kotak turns herself into a vessel through performance art and shifts taboo/private experiences into empowered events. David Lukowski employs humor in his sculptures to explore the concept of early language acquisition and the creation of complex compound ideas from simple base words that often reveal frustration, wit and accidental poetry. Sydney Chastain-Chapman and Hugh Walton mine their personal memories. Chastain-Chapman’s paintings reflect a psychological realism where a dream-like logic takes over to investigate eternal cycles of birth/life/death. Walton’s video art and extracted stills fluctuate between private and universal content; his work exposes societal mixed messages, while unearthing childhood trauma. Monica Carrier’s meditative, abstract, playful black ink drawings move between organic pooling and fine brushwork inviting the viewer to witness the emergence of faces and forms that grow out of her intuitive and process-based work.
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Schedule
from November 21, 2014 to December 14, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-11-21 from 18:00 to 21:00