PLANNING PROCESS: Drawings and Finished Works

Andrew Wodzianski

John James Anderson

F. Lennox Campello

R. L. Croft

Craig Kraft

Magnolia Laure

Jessie Lehson

Ephraim Russell

Samuel Scharf

Dan Tulk

Jessica Van Brakle

Tom Wagner

All artists selected by HELEN ALLEN, founder and former director of PULSE art fairs; current partner for (e)merge art fair in Washington, DC

Also on view:

RACHEL SCHMIDT

“Damsels & Daemons”

Victorian aesthetics and the modern world mashed up in a multimedia tableau; a self-contained world of double identities and make-believe friends.

OPENING RECEPTION FOR BOTH SHOWS:
THUR SDAY, June 23, 7 – 9 pm
For PLANNING PROCESS, juror Helen Allen—formerly of PULSE art fairs; currently planning D.C.’s first-ever (e)merge art fair, opening this September—selected 12 artists from across the mid-Atlantic region who were willing to reveal the ways they think and problem-solve in the studio.


Andrew Wodzianski shows a portrait project in which he compares members of his family to the crew of the Pequod in “Moby Dick.”

John James Anderson reveals his scheme to print blank newspapers as a prank—and how this ultimately led him to erasing the front pages of found newspapers by hand.

F. Lennox Campello offers a mock-up of a typical hotel room in order to demonstrate his ongoing project: defacing (and thereby improving) the tacky hotel art he encounters whenever he’s on the road.

R.L. Croft shows large-scale metal sculpture next to one of the R. Crumb-like pen and ink drawings that inspired it.

Craig Kraft reveals how he transforms notes and careless doodles in the margins of newspapers into wall-filling neon sculptures.

Magnolia Laurie uses her quirky pictorial language—referencing makeshift structures, natural disasters, and rubble—to create related works in recycled paper, foam, tiny pen-and-ink drawings and large finished paintings.

Jessie Lehson transforms one of AAC’s experimental galleries into a sort of giant soil mandala: an ephemeral meditative space composed with minimalist-inspired patterns.

Ephraim Russell tracks his own movements using his own homemade hand-held GPS device—and uses that data to create various drawings, printouts, and videos.

Samuel Scharf invites viewers into an unexpected encounter with deep saturated color in a small enclosed environment—an 8 foot cube with a small doorway and a lone LED lightbulb inside.

Dan Tulk creates giant minimalist grids directly on the walls of the gallery using threaded rods, string, and brightly colored yarn.

Jessica van Brakle creates hybrid graphic black and white images in which sublime landscapes are dominated by giant construction cranes.

Tom Wagner shows through a series of four studies how he melds images of contemporary architecture, figures from renaissance art, and the energy of Futurist painting.

“PLANNING PROCESS” and “Damsels & Daemons” are on view June 22 – Sept 25, 2011
Gallery hours: Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 pm; Sat + Sun, Noon – 5 pm
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