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November 2015

November 2015

Fellows Converge | re : gift

Please join us Saturday, November 14 from 7 - 9 pm for the opening of the group exhibition Fellows Converge,  an annual exercise in which Hamiltonian Fellows create new work around the premise of an invited guest curator. Fellows Converge | re: gift was orchestrated by Jennie Carlisle, Program Director at Elsewhere, a living museum inside a three story thrift store in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Fellows Converge | re: gift largely examines the multifacetedness of objects; their assigned usages; and how an object’s meaning can shift depending on context, ownership, and history. Hamiltonian’s artists spent a weekend at Elsewhere partaking in activities that allowed them to consider how objects mediate our experiences; function in our daily lives as objects of history, memory, and utility; and contribute to identity. Following the visit, Carlisle assigned the seven participating artists with the following directive:

Step 1: Give a gift. Make it meaningful. Wrap it nicely.

Step 2: Receive a gift.

Step 3: Create a new artwork based on the gift.

The result is an exhibition that challenges each artist with the exchange of objects whose meanings emanate from their personal use and existing significance. When gifted to a fellow artist, these earlier meanings take on new associations as personal connections re-define how the thing is subsequently perceived and deployed. Here, a mouse trap, a memoir, a cassette tape, a sonic amplifier, a stamp collection, a souvenir, and a bottle of whiskey all undergo a semantic shift, spurring original paintings, sculptures, and installations that record these re-assigned possibilities.

Does meaning accumulate, muddle, or disappear altogether as objects are exchanged from one artist to another? Each work in Fellows Converge | re: gift proposes its own approach to thinking through the complexities of memory as applied to objecthood, producing a rich exhibition of remembrance and renewal as experienced through the lens of the items that surround us.

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November 14- December 19, 2015

Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 14, 2015
7 - 9 pm

photos by Nicole Dowd

September 2015

September 2015

new. now. 2015

 

Please join us Saturday, September 19 from 7 - 9 pm for the opening of our annual group exhibition new. now. in which we debut the work of our five new, distinguished Hamiltonian Fellows for 2015.

We are thrilled to introduce:

Christie Neptune (BA, Fordham University)
Jim Leach (MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art)
Rob Hackett(MFA, University of Maryland, College Park)
Kyle Tata (BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art)
Nara Park(MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art)

Informal artists talks will be conducted with each of the new fellows throughout the exhibition on the following days:

Wednesday, October 14, 7pm:  Kyle Tata + Jim Leach

Tuesday, October 21, 7pm: Rob Hackett + Christie Neptune

Thursday, October 28, 7pm: Nara Park


 

 

Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 19
7-9 pm

Artist Talks:
Kyle Tata + Jim Leach:
Wednesday, October 14
7pm  

Rob Hackett + Christie Neptune:
Tuesday, October 21
7pm

Nara Park:
Thursday, October 28
7pm 

photos by Nicole Dowd

August 2015

August 2015

Adam Ryder | Renovatio Imperii
Dan Perkins | Alone In The Woods

Hamiltonian is pleased to present two new bodies of work by artists Adam Ryder and Dan Perkins. The exhibitions will run from August 8 – September 12, with an opening reception on Saturday, August 8 from 7-9 pm.

Through photography, found imagery and other media, Adam Ryder presents a new body of work that operates as evidence of a secretive fraternal organization known to its members as “Renovatio Imperii”. Latin for “restoration of the Empire”, Renovatio Imperii is purported to be clandestinely involved in geo-political affairs and claims ties to the Roman imperium of classical antiquity. Inspired by the neoclassical architecture of Washington, DC, conspiracy theories and the Masonic brotherhood, Ryder cleverly employs found objects, imagery and manipulated photographs of familiar landmarks in order to build a case for Renovatio Imperii’s existence and their ominous hand in global affairs.

In Alone In the Woods, painter Dan Perkins immerses viewers within a dreamy, solipsistic world devoid of human presence. Perkin’s romantic, solitary landscape paintings merge 19th century notions of the picturesque and the sublime with 21st century interruptions: digital desktop interfaces, cell phones and computer graphics. These incongruous pairings result in landscape paintings that oscillate between transcendent clarity and playful digital flatness, thereby calling into question the true or illusory nature of the scenes depicted.

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August 8 – September 12, 2015

Opening Reception:  
Saturday, August 8  
7-9 pm  

Artist Talk:
Wednesday, September 10
7 pm 

Hamiltonian Artists:
Adam Ryder
Dan Perkins

photos by Nicole Dowd

June 2015

June 2015

Lisa Dillin | I’m looking for you...

Allison Spence | More human than I am, alone

Hamiltonian is pleased to present two new exhibitions by artists Lisa Dillin and Allison Spence. The exhibitions will run from June 27 - August 1 with an opening reception on Saturday, June 27 from 7-9 pm.

In I'm looking for you... Lisa Dillin explores the architectural legacy of the modern built environment and its disconnect with nature as it affects our ability to form relationships and communities. Utilizing visuals commonly associated with malls, lobbies, and hospitals, Dillin aims to expose homogenous design as a means to isolate individuals even as they continue to live in close proximity. By referencing the contemporary urban landscape with its corporate design tropes, I'm looking for you... reveals how lighting, fountains, polished stone, and foliage lull denizens with an artificially serene environment while stripping them of their innate diversity, heritage, connection to the land and to one another. Although these environments were once thought to create the "third space" of social interaction and community, in Dillin's perspective, these spaces dominate and control the individual resulting in feelings of solitude and disengagement in our everyday experience of the world. Through the objects on view, Dillin tells a story of a collective longing for connection: the consequence of modern convenience.

In More Human than I am, alone, a line from David Cronenberg's film, The Fly, Allison Spence translates her interest in corporeal confusion and the abject directly into the material. Spence's paintings suggest violence, the macabre, and the bodily experience as viewed through the polished veneer of digital media, where bodies become data only; masses melting together or merging with the landscape, and incorporating pieces of others into themselves. In her newest body of work, Spence fuses her interests in language, horror comics, science fiction imagery and low-resolution nature specials into crushed canvases and paintings of unintelligible masses that are at once threatening and visually compelling.

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June 27 – August 1, 2015

Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 27
7-9 pm

Artist Talk:
Tuesday, July 7
7 pm

Hamiltonian Artists:
Lisa Dillin
Allison Spence

photos by Naoko Wowsugi (Allison) + Nicole Dowd (Lisa)

May 2015

May 2015

Larry Cook | Stockholm Syndrome

Hamiltonian is pleased to present a new body of work by artist Larry Cook. The exhibition will run from May 19 – June 20, 2015 with an opening reception on Thursday, May 21 from 7 - 9 pm.

Stockholm Syndrome, a psychological term in which a person taken captive begins to identify and empathize with their captor, is re-defined in Larry Cook’s exhibition as a form of cultural amnesia in which contemporary Americans have maintained a complacent and subdued conscience by idealizing and avoiding America’s racist history. Stockholm Syndrome challenges viewers to revisit the past and consider the evolved nature of racism today, while questioning the notion of progress in a so-called “post-racial” society.

In Stockholm Syndrome , Cook poignantly investigates how slavery, religion and politics directly affect notions of identity, progress and racial bias in American culture today. Through a variety of media including re-appropriated sound, text and imagery, Cook challenges his viewers to consider an alternative narrative, one that instigates a confrontation and reevaluation their potential racial biases.

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May 19 – June 20, 2015

Opening Reception:
Thursday, May 21
7-9 pm

Artist Talk:
Wednesday, June 10
7 pm

Hamiltonian Artists:
Larry Cook

photos by Nicole Dowd

April 2015

April 2015

WILL SCHNEIDER-WHITE | THE NOISE OF HIS NAME

DANE WINKLER | CHASSIS

 

Hamiltonian is pleased to present two new bodies of work by artists Will Schneider-White and Dane Winkler. The exhibitions will run from April 7 – May 9, 2015 with an opening reception on Saturday, April 11 from 7 – 9 pm.

Will Schneider-White continues his painterly translation of literary themes in The noise of his name. Thinking about the notion that, as author William Gass writes, “A character, first of all, is the noise of his name, and all the sounds and rhythms that proceed from him,” Schneider-White creates figures that float between states of specificity, touching on ideas of character, portrait, and the artist's surrogate. The works in The noise of his name. revel in a preoccupation with the mechanics of painting, which, when combined with literary-cum-representational ideas, weave narratives with deep emotional resonance.

Chassis, the metal framework of a man-made structure, alludes also to the formative memories, materials and ideas that guide Dane Winkler’s sculptural practice.  In Chassis, Winkler’s harkens back to his childhood in rural upstate New York where days were spent outdoors tending the family farm. Winkler pays homage to recollections both sobering and tender with two ruggedly sophisticated kinetic sculptures that contrast natural materials and industrial machinery, hard labor with nostalgia.  

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April 7 – May 9, 2015

Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 11
7-9 pm

Artist Talk:
Thursday, April 23
7 pm

Hamiltonian Artists:
Will Schneider-White
Dane Winkler

photos by Nicole Dowd

February 2015

February 2015

Nancy Daly | Save As...

Hamiltonian is pleased to present Save As... an ongoing performance and installation by artist Nancy Daly. The exhibition will run from February 24 – March 28, 2015, with the artist working in the gallery on select dates from 12 pm until 6 pm throughout the duration of the exhibition. Save As… will culminate in a closing reception on Saturday, March 28 from 7-9 pm.

In Save As… Nancy Daly will be methodically excavating her digital archives from 2002 to the present, printing out everything she has ever saved, including vacation photos, emails, resumes, essays and Gchats. As she makes the digital physical, Daly will transform the gallery into a visual diary of her virtual life over the past 13 years, exposing the normally hidden minutiae that she has gradually collected over time. The project, designed to overtake the gallery in a process of slow accrual, will construct a picture of the content-generating habits of the artist.

As Daly works, a photo will be taken for every day that she is holding gallery hours. Her process will also be recorded in a time-lapse video. She will create an encyclopedia set out of the material produced.

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February 24 - March 28, 2015

Artist Talk:
Thursday, March 19
7 pm

Closing Reception:
Saturday, March 28
7-9 pm

Hamiltonian Artists:
Nancy Daly

photos by Kim Llerena

January 2015

January 2015

 

Hamiltonian Artists:
Naoko Wowsugi

Guest Artists:
Whoop Dee Doo

photos by Naoko Wowsugi
Whoop Dee Doo performance documentation by Angie Goerner