Kevin Lips and Mason Saltarrelli Exhibition
Interstate Projects
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Both artist's source their work from the found, either in materials, shapes, or forms. Through this process they both create narrative triggers that remain undetermined by the artist and the naturalistic abstract forms of both artist's works.
Kevin Lips' sculptures are amorphous shapes that interact with each other and build off themselves. Trained classically as a potter and ceramicist, he takes everyday materials and hardware store basics and combines them to form surfaces and textures that bind and condense into outer shells and surfaces. This ever evolving series of simple but universal forms are now focusing on textiles. By combining strips of various colors, textures and densities of basic materials, Lips sculptures become off the wall three dimensional paintings. These new works are not about painting though, or any emulation of but more about the idea of form, color, space and materiality.
Mason Saltarrelli's work is an open-ended narrative that he creates by using a mixture of images that are found and imagined. Over time he has developed a cast of characters, some recognizable, some not, who invite the viewer to map for themselves new relationships and interactions. Identifiable borrowings, such as the Hopi figure of Kachina or specific Catholic saints with their attributes, are removed from their original context not to negate or deny their stories, but to add to them. Saltarrelli is inspired by the manners and functions of the fable or folk-tale and by jazz, whose improvisational template he applies in his own process. The intention is to invite anyone looking at the images to open a stream of consciousness that runs in parallel to his own.
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Schedule
from January 20, 2012 to February 25, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-01-20 from 18:00 to 21:00