Dennis Clive and Robert Rasely Exhibition
Allan Stone Projects
[Image: Dennis Clive "Twentieth Century Pyramid" (1976) ceramic, 19 x 37 x 37 in.]
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DENNIS CLIVE
Ceramic Transport
From the playful to the apocalyptic, Dennis Clive utilizes his mastery of clay to both satirize and celebrate symbols of American transport in ten elaborate sculptures from the Allan Stone Collection.
Clive began experimenting with clay while taking an elective arts course in college, creating highly detailed facsimiles of trucks, planes and automobiles. The clay’s physicality is apparent in these works, whose surfaces fold and undulate like skin or glisten like polished steel. Wheels, bumpers, headlights and tailpipes are modeled in a manner that is both erotic and humorous. Marvels at a distance, the true extent of Clive’s abilities lie in the close-up view, when the scrutiny paid to details like undercarriages, windshield reflections, license plates, and hand-painted decals, are most apparent. Yet the convincing realism of detail does not overshadow the inherent fragility of the clay, nor Clive’s ambitious
ROBERT RASELY
Houses and Birds
In the sixteen paintings selected from the Allan Stone Collection, Robert Rasely’s surreal depictions of houses and birds imbue their subjects with a haunting sense of unease, creating a tension between the real and the imaginary.
Rasely’s paintings envision an altered netherworld. Dream-like interiors, landscapes populated by ambiguous organisms and birds of unsettling awareness are alternately quirky, delightful and ominous. They recall the manic characteristics of a Bosch inferno with the delicate touch of Dutch vanitas paintings. Using fine brushes, ground pigments and a controlled hand, Rasely’s lightly glazed oil-on-panel renderings of chimerical scenes and obscure symbols engage the subconscious. His allegorical imagery of doorways, innards, beauty and decay challenge the viewer to find a concealed meaning within each painting. To wander through Rasely’s enigmatic landscapes is to search for the magic in the everyday, to awaken to the possibilities of alternative interpretation.
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Schedule
from January 10, 2019 to February 16, 2019
Opening Reception on 2019-01-10 from 18:00 to 20:00