NYAB Event - “Line as Structure or Continuation” Exhibition

“Line as Structure or Continuation” Exhibition

Causey Contemporary

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Causey Contemporary presents the opening of their summer exhibition, Line as Structure or Continuation featuring the paintings of Nancy Berlin, Alyssa Dennis, Amelie Ducommun and Emily Moore.

Many times a line is viewed as a beginning point, a means to an end. In this exhibition, the focus is split between architectural line or line that indicates a structure and line that serves as a continuation of a thought form, one that indicates a presence either structural or organic. Further, the line might be the actual division between structure and the organic world. Several artists who have recently crossed the curator’s path are playing with these underlying themes. Since line in this context is harder to embody in two rather than three dimensions, curator, Tracy Causey-Jeffery has chosen works which are all created on the two dimensional plane and so appear together in the exhibition, Line as Structure or Continuation.

As the curator, Ms. Causey-Jeffery has made a further decision and focused on the art of four female painters for she felt that within the realms of art and architecture, the female point of view when discussing line as structure or indication of the continuation of a form is often absent. The painters selected are Nancy Berlin, Alyssa Dennis, Amelie Ducommun and Emily Moore.

Nancy Berlin was born in New York City and, after graduating from Barnard College, received her MA in painting and printmaking at Hunter College. She has received grants for her drawings from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Berkshire Taconic Foundation. She has had residencies at the American Academy in Rome, at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington, and at the New Pacific Studio in Mt. Bruce, New Zealand. Her work is in the collections of the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the Boston Public Library and many corporate and private collections. She has exhibited her drawings, prints and paintings in one-person and group shows at galleries she has been affiliated with in New York City, Boston, Seattle and Charleston, West Virginia. She currently lives and works most of the year in Truro, Massachusetts. Her work has long been concerned with mapping change.

Alyssa Dennis is a native of Baltimore, MD that now resides in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA from Tulane University and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. She currently has representation
with Johanssen Gallery, Berlin. In addition she has had representation from Kesting/Ray, NYC and Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston. Alyssa has exhibited at Pulse LA and ImPulse, Miami as well as Fountain Art Fair. She just recently had a solo show with White Walls,SF April, 2015 and is pleased to be showing for the first time with Causey Contemporary, NY.

Amélie Ducommun was born in 1983 to a French-Swiss artist. She studied fine arts in Barcelona in 2003 and then graduated from Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris in 2009. She currently works between Paris and Bordeaux. Amelie is a member of the Academy of France in Madrid and was part of the “Casa de Velazques” from 2009 -2011. She won the George Wildensteind Laureate award in 2011 and the silver medal for the 7th Jeux de la Francophonie in 2013. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Miro Foundation as well as numerous private collections.

Emily Moore graduated with a first class degree from Edinburgh College of Art in 2013. In 2012 she was awarded the Royal Scottish Academy Keith Prize for the best student work and during her final year she was selected for the Saatchi New Sensations Longlist. Following graduation Moore was shortlisted as one of ten finalists for the Griffin Art Prize, appearing in an exhibition at The Griffin Gallery in London, where she was awarded the Griffin Art Prize People’s Choice Award and a sponsored artist award. Since graduating Moore has shown her work internationally as well as regularly exhibiting at the Annual Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibitions. She currently lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.