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LAUREN EWING is a sculptor and installation artist who makes drawings, prints and photographs. Her art addresses the vast construct of material culture in relation to memory, desire and language. Many of her sculptures and installations are polyvocal simultaneously using image, object, space and unique electronic texts that are thematically provocative and richly poetic. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in museum and galleries including Diane Brown Gallery, NYC; Castelli Graphics, NYC; Sonnabend Gallery, NYC; John Weber Gallery, NYC; the Hirshhorn Museum; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; the Decordova Museum; Storm King Art Center; the Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark; Interim Art, London; the Sydney Biennale, Australia and many others. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum, NYC; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Chase Manhattan Bank Collection; the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; the Walt Disney Collection. Her public sculptures are located in many American cities including Seattle, Sacramento, Atlantic City, Denver and Philadelphia. Ewing currently has studios in New York City, Indiana and Provincetown. For this exhibition she will present 'Key to Memes (After Magritte)'. Here Ewing plays with images from Magritte’s series Key to Dreams and his well known misappropriations of word image relationships. To Magritte’s “dream” images she adds her own meme images. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. All the terms in Ewing’s Key… describe the behavior of memes that involves contagion, reproduction, transmission, imitation, selection, memory and so on. In the accompanying video the circular process of reassigning the word image relationship renders everything interchangeable. In Ewing’s Key to Memes distinctions between cultural entities, biological processes and dreams slip away. NONA HERSHEY‘s work is an attempt to grasp the ephemeral. Using balls of cotton imbued with graphite powder, her drawings are made by slowly building up layers of tonality to evoke form and light. The softness and translucency of the medium lends itself well to mutability. This gradual, incremental process is a continual dialogue of invention as forms begin to emerge and the openings between the clouds become animated by the character of their edges. The finished works suggest air, light, movement and the precariousness of hope. Linear markings are sometimes embedded behind the clouds to suggest wind patterns and sometimes are seen right up front on the picture plane as a means to establish a palpable distance between the viewer's position and the shifting clouds behind and beyond the pictorial frame. Hershey's work is included in numerous public collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the Library of Congress; Fogg Museum; Yale University Art Gallery; and the Calcografia Nazionale, Rome. She has participated in over 100 Print Biennials and Group Exhibitions internationally. Ms. Hershey has been Professor and Coordinator of the Printmaking Department at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston for nearly 20 years. For this exhibition she will present a suite of new drawings on paper. DAVID SCHOERNER is an American artist living and working in New York City. Primarily working with photography and works-on-paper, Schoerner employs a personal narrative to re-organize our pre-conceived notions of his familiar-feeling subject matter. He assembles seemingly disparate images into a new geography where time has expanded and memory is reconfigured. Schoerner's work also investigates the classical genres of photography, re-photographed imagery and text works. This can be seen as a continuation of the Conceptual art of the 60s and 70s, the Pictures Generation of the 80s and the topographical photography of the 90s; however, Schoerner offers a more emotional, personal inquiry into what photography can be. He received his BFA at Montserrat College of Art and has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and Oslo and has been included in group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Hong Kong. DONALD TRAVER's work ranges from the figural exploitation of both flat and infinite space to anthropomorphic shapes that are called into being by the whimsical interplay between light and shadow. Recent solo exhibitions include, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco; Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR; White Columns, New York, NY; Krygier / Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY. He has participated in group shows at Edward Thorp Gallery, NY; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY; NJ Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ; Galeria Fucares, Madrid, Spain and Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH. Public Collections include: Chase Bank, Fogg Art Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, IBM, The Progressive Corporation, The Queens Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art and Yale University. Traver earned his BFA from SUNY, New Paltz, NY, and lives and works in New York. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. The Schoolhouse Gallery is located at 494 Commercial Street in the heart of Provincetown¹s East End Gallery District. For information and press contact Mike Carroll at 508.487.4800 or email mike@schoolhouseprovincetown.com. |
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