“Tally” Exhibition

Causey Contemporary

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Causey Contemporary presents Tally, the first exhibition of their autumn season featuring a collaboration by Steven Dobbin, Patricia, Stockman, Georgia Deal and Workingman Collective.

“The Lower East Side has been a significant migratory site for shaping utopian speculation and practical thinking, from the indigenous Lenape tribes, mass European immigration from 1840’s – 1930’s, to recent wholesale gentrification. Researching and responding to the broad source of archived visual and written documentation on the Lower East Side, artists Steven Dobbin, Patricia Stockman, Georgia Deal, and Workingman Collective will maneuver and employ their collective interpretations of place, migration, invention, and being human. The result is a collaborative exchange and visual examination of the Lower East Side as place and as allegory.”

Based in Washington, D.C. and Western North Carolina, Workingman Collective is a collaborative group of artists who move in and out of various projects. An interest in exploring the nature of collaboration and cooperation, invention, chance, and the public, guides their practice. Projects move through stages from the collection of information to the construction of an object or situation to the participation of an audience. Typically participation alters the process, producing new information that is integrated into the art experience. Ultimately, their projects seek to generate environmental awareness, stimulate the re-identification of a population with its hometown history, and urge participants into strengthening relationships with their neighbors. Since it’s founding in 2005, Workingman Collective has exhibited and created projects in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. They are represented by Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.

Peter works on individual projects and in collaboration with other artists. For twenty years, as a founding member of the collaborative group, Workingman Collective, and as a core member of the group, Art Attack, he has engaged in making pieces that question the domain and currency of personal authorship, the context of location and the creative process. The groups’ works have been exhibited/performed in settings as diverse as PS1, Artist’s Space, parking lots, abandoned houses and public spaces through out the world. Peter has been a three-time recipient of the CEC Artslink grant. Peter’s personal work has ranged from forged steel, abstractly painted figurative sculpture, to “unarchitectural” structures from conventional building materials, to compositions of painted, fallen branches. His work is in private collections throughout the United States. Peter reviews Washington area fine art exhibitions as a panelist on public television station WETA’s Around Town. He is a board member of Albus Cavus, an arts outreach program centered in Washington, D.C. He is also Vice- President for Education for Integrative Teaching International, a national group whose focus is on the development of visual art foundation programs for the 21st century.

Tom is an artist, builder, educator, and a founding member of Workingman Collective. Tom navigates his practice in and out of the public realm with a combination of skilled object making and purposeful inquiry-based wandering. His subject matter is rooted in the curiosities and rituals of everyday life.

His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellowship, a NY State Arts Grant, a Washington, D.C. Commission on the Arts Award, and the Mabel Pew Grant. As a distinguished Professor of Art and the MFA Director at Western Carolina University, North Carolina, he thus divides his time between there and Washington, D.C.

Georgia Deal is a printmaker, book artist and papermaker whose work is included in numerous national and international collections such as at the Library of Congress, and the Philadelphia Art Museum. Her work explores the visual recollections and impressions of memory: attempting to break down the narrative to a more refined and skeletal state. Deal is the head of the Printmaking department and a professor at Corcoran College of Art and Design. She has been awarded residencies at the Yaddo Foundation,Saratoga, NY, Lakeside Studios, Chicago, and Pyramid Atlantic, Hyattsville, MD. Additionally, she has taught workshops nationally and abroad, including the Studies Abroad program for the University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy, the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts in Skopelos, Greece, the Paper & Book Intensive, Oxbow, MI, and the Haystack School in Dear Isle, ME.

Steven Dobbin is an American sculptor working in lead, copper, and steel with plaster and pigment who has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 30 years. His assemblages, like those of Joseph Cornell and Edward Kienholtz, focus the viewer’s attention on the problems created by society’s pressure on the individual to conform; the displacement of those who are disabled physically, emotionally or mentally and the politically disenfranchised. He counts Cornell, along with David Hockney, Louise Nevelson and Agnes Martin as his artistic muses and sites Laurence Weschler’s book “Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees” as another important influence on his own creations.
Steven has been awarded the Maryland State Arts Council award for excellence in sculpture and his permanent installation, “The Labyrinth of Remembrance” on the grounds of the Phillips School in MD has been featured in the Baltimore Sun as well as on the NBC affiliate, WBLA TV. Additionally, he is the co-director of Artomatic@Frederick which has displayed the work of over 400 artists while also providing a venue for film, music and performance in its 2011, 2013 and 2016 incarnations.

Patricia Stockman is a Frederick, MD photographer and digital artist, as well as a digital arts teacher. She is considered an up and coming artist in the Maryland - D.C. area. Her photography work for, and with, Steven Dobbin has led to her involvement in this collaborative show. She has been presented various juried awards including first place at The Annual Juried Exhibit at the Delaplaine Art Center in Frederick, MD; and Juror’s First Choice Award at the Focal Point Show, MFA Gallery, Annapolis, MD.