NYAB Event - “FOLD” Exhibition

“FOLD” Exhibition

Planthouse

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Curated by Jeff Bergman and Rachel Gladfelter

Planthouse is pleased to present FOLD: an exhibition highlighting the work of four artists who fold, bend, and manipulate their materials to express voluminous concepts. Curated by Jeff Bergman and Rachel Gladfelter, FOLD evolved out of their mutual interest in Rachel’s grandmothers’ quilts and Jeff’s love of origami, along with the observation of how a multitude of flat objects are folded, bent, and battered in our daily lives. The work in this exhibition features transformations both linear and abstract; Anders Bergstrom’s printed miniature paper ‘bodega’ bags reveal the remarkable in the mundane, while Rachel Ostrow’s process paintings skirt the line between abstraction and representation, only suggesting the luminous layers of what might be lying in the hidden creases.

Matt Magee’s paintings are a study in bends in coloration and linear progression, while improbability and numerous possibilities yield their folded results within Martha Lewis’s paper structures. The distinctions we make between media can often segregate materials in favor of easy classifications. With FOLD, the curators want to showcase how differently artists can elaborate on a concept while still working towards a similar aim. Taking cues from origami, textiles, drapery and manufactured objects, the artists in FOLD work in a variety of traditional media; paint, print, paper, and metal, to produce diverse manifestations of three-dimensionality. For these artists, the ‘fold’ is not just a shape, but an opportunity to show us the fecundity of dimensional space.

Anders Bergstrom (b. Tucson, AZ) is a printmaker and painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He studied Sociology at the University of Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Arizona with a BA in Sociology and Studio Art. His work has been presented in exhibitions at Abrons Arts Center in New York; Columbia College, Chicago, IL; the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Planthouse, New York, NY, and in many group exhibitions at the International Print Center NY. His work is held in many collections, including Smith College Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and Beinecke Library at Yale University.

Martha Lewis (b. Boston, MA) is primarily a painter and draftsperson currently living and working in the United States and Europe. Lewis received her BFA in painting from Cooper Union in New York City and her MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University in New Haven, CT. She subsequently taught drawing at Yale University and at Columbia University. Her work is in the collections of Nuffield College, Oxford, and Chapman University in Orange, CA, as well as in private collections in the United States and in Europe.

Matt Magee (b. Paris, France) is a painter and sculptor living and working in Phoenix, Arizona. Magee received his BA from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX and his MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited all over the United States and internationally, with recent solo shows at James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe, NM and at Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston, TX. He has also exhibited in a number of prestigious group shows in the Southwest, Miami, London, and in New York. He has been the recipient of awards such as the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the Pollock-Krasner Grant and the Board of Trustees Award at Silvermine Art Center. His work belongs in the public and private collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX; the University of New Mexico Museum, Albuquerque, NM; the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY.

Rachel Ostrow is a painter and printmaker living and working in New York City. In 2008, she received her MFA from Hunter College in New York, NY, where she was the recipient of the Tom Woods award. Previously, she received her BFA in printmaking from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, and her post-bac certificate from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Center for Art and Culture in Aix-en-Provence, France. Rachel has had a number of exhibitions in Brooklyn and Manhattan, including the most recent Spring/Break Art Show in New York City, as well as at Deborah Berke Partners, the International Print Center, Fisher Gallery at Horace Mann, Bushwick Cooperative, and Gowanus Studio Space.

Media

• Sculpture
• Installation

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