Ellen Hackl Fagan, John Morton and Maria Scarpini “Fever Songs”
Bronx Art Space
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Ellen Hackl Fagan makes her monumental paintings on paper by imprinting or capturing the forms of industrial, mass-produced objects found in her home and studio, much as a photogram would, but using paint instead of photo-sensitive materials. She is drawn to industrial, mass-produced objects because they are sourced from everyday, ordinary life, and are available in multiples. Repetition of forms and patterns floating in a universe made in her signature color of a pure cobalt blue give her work an elegiac air, as if speaking back to us from an after-life.
Fever Songs by John Morton is an interactive sound installation that brings together the vocal traditions of many religions, creating an active sonic experience that explores spiritual commonality and seeks to break down religious divisions. The work is a commingling of ritual and scriptural vocalization, recorded live whenever possible, woven together and sonically altered by ever-changing computer processing and sensor-proximity location. The installation is devoid of doctrine - rather, a bringing together of the commonality of the human ecstatic experience.
Black Wave started as a gestural piece. Maria Scarpini used a large brush with oil on paper trying to repeat a wave movement as accurately and similarly as she could in its proportion to match the previous one. The variations resulted by the manual work and by the amount of oil in the brush, interested Scarpini so she decided to go further and imprint the wet drawing onto another paper. Sometimes she kept the first impression, other times she reworked the drawing until she found a better result, or blurred the color with the brush. Scarpini paints on top of the “print”, and sometimes prints multiple pieces until the drawing fades.
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Schedule
from November 06, 2019 to December 12, 2019
Opening Reception on 2019-11-06 from 17:30 to 20:30