Push - Pull
Curated by Karen Azarnia (MFA 2008)

May 26 - June 30, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, June 1, 6 - 9pm

Participating Artists: Claire Ashley (MFA 1995, Faculty), Dana DeGiulio (BFA 2001, MFA 2007, Faculty), Anne Harris, Lindsey Hook (PBS 2008, MFA 2010), Richard Hull (MFA 1980, Faculty), Brian Kapernekas (BFA 1991), Eric Lebofsky (MFA 2004, Faculty), Stacza Lipinski, Sangram Majumdar, Kim Piotrowski (BFA 1988), Carly Silverman (MFA 2011), Kyle Staver

This group painting exhibition explores the ongoing dialogue between abstraction and representation. The work presented is unified on the most fundamental level: it all exists as materials on a surface. While the work spans a varied spectrum, with some artists engaging the conversation through perception moving towards the invented or imagined, and vice versa, all move towards a singular point. They all demonstrate an interest in investigating material surface, often with a high degree of innovative playfulness.
Some of the painted surfaces emphasize flatness in the search for shape and color, others embody illusionistic space, and yet others foreground varied textures and a strong sense of physical materiality. The figure-ground relationship in the works adds additional layers of complexity, as imagery is pushed, pulled, lost, found, suggested, hidden and revealed.

In the RAC sculpture garden:
Let us go then, you and I
Jefferson Godard + Claire Ashley (MFA 1995)
Curated by Karen Azarnia

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