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November 2017

November 2017

It’s Still All Up To You

Curated by Eve Biddle & Will Hutnick

Kyle Bauer | Rachel Guardiola | Magali Hébert-Huot |Paolo Morales | Nara Park | Kyle Tata | Rives Wiley

Hamiltonian Gallery is pleased to present It’s Still All Up To You, an exhibition curated by Eve Biddle and Will Hutnick comprised of the current Hamilton Fellow cohort, that explores the ways we try to communicate and connect by obscuring, revealing, and purposefully distorting information.

It’s Still All Up To You features 8 artists - the current Hamiltonian Fellow cohort – that address this theme in some capacity. What is revealed through a piece of art? How much of an artist can you actually see in their work? How much do they want you to see? In some cases there is a literal obstruction, covering up, distortion and manipulation of objects and materials into another form. And in others, there is an obtuse reveal: a teasing hint into what the artist is thinking, feeling, experiencing in their own life, giving us just enough to grab onto and apply to our own narratives. While many of the works in this exhibition are abstract, there is a palpable empathy in them, almost a call and response between the viewer and the piece. I’ll share this if you share that. Notions of time and space are con ated, thrown into a blender. We are presented with alternate realities lled with the self and a longing to connect: a deep connection towards disparate parts, to other individuals, to nature, to other cultures, with an acknowledgement of faults, an honesty viewed from a distance.

How does purposefully obscuring visual information inform how we take in other forms of information? News? Current events? Are we just being handed a quasi one-sided opinion with only our own personal context brought to the table? Throughout this exhibition there is a strong conception of self-awareness, where the artists are winking towards these ideas around obfuscation. The viewer is both IN on the joke, AND possibly part of the joke themselves.

Ultimately we all bring only ourselves and our personal vessels of knowledge to each piece - what they reveal, tell, teach, provoke will be different in all of us. The actions you take from being inspired, being informed by partial stories, being revealed to in uncertain terms ... it’s still all up to you.

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November 18 - December 16, 2017

Opening Reception  
Saturday November 18, 2017

7-9pm

September 2017

September 2017

September 23 – November 4, 2017

new. now. 2017
Heather Theresa Clark
Patrick Harkin
Antonio McAfee
Helina Metaferia
Ellen Xu

August 2017

August 2017

Paolo Morales | Between You and Me

Nara Park | What Remains

July 2017

July 2017

Secure Patterns | Kyle Tata

Transmission from Terra Incognita | Rachel Guardiola 

 

May 2017

May 2017

DIY Laser Eye Surgery

Rives Wiley

April 2017

April 2017

Existential Wreck Room

Nancy Daly + Kyle Bauer

February 2017

February 2017

Aschely Vaughan Cone + Magali Hébert-Huot | A Place in Place of

Hamiltonian Gallery is pleased to present "A Place in Place of", a new exhibition of works by Aschely Vaughan Cone and Magali Hébert-Huot. "A Place in Place of" will open with a reception on Saturday, February 25 from 7 - 9 pm; both artists will be in attendance. "A Place in Place of" features large-scale abstract paintings and life-sized sculpture that carry echoes of stories lost to time. Taken together, the vibrant works weave a cryptic yet playful narrative that place the viewer in an interrogative role.

Artist Aschely Vaughan Cone’s monumental, gestural paintings employ a plethora of symbols - archways, shields, dotted lines and woven patterns - that shift in meaning and tone as they repeat throughout her compositions. Cone’s willingness to reveal the rawness of her work’s creation through her paint handling is contrasted with a tendency to suspend definitive meaning, thereby creating a viewing experience in which interpretation and material shift from canvas to canvas. 

Drawing from imagery associated with her French-Canadian heritage, Magali Hébert-Huot’s wax, rubber and stucco casts of axe handles and chopped wood approach the weight of remembering a proud history with a playful hand. Hébert-Huot’s use of unexpected, mass-produced materials and ostentatious colors stand in sharp contrast with the objects, which on their own carry associations with tales of struggle and survival in an unforgiving, brutal wilderness. In this way, Hébert-Huot’s sculptures serve as kitschy contemporary mnemonic devices: reminders of a unique ancestral history whose legacy grows increasingly distant with every passing generation.

Aschely Vaughan Cone (b. San Antonio, TX 1985) holds an MFA in Painting from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, an MA in Art History from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA (2012), and BA in Liberal Arts with a focus on philosophy and the classics from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD (2007). Cone was awarded residencies at The Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, the Chautauqua School of Art and the New York Studio School. She is also the recipient of The Henry Walters Traveling Fellowship, which will allow her to travel to Indonesia to study Indonesian textiles and sacred architecture in 2017.

Originally from Québec City, Magali Hébert-Huot (b.Québec City, Canada, 1987) holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art - Rinehart School of Sculpture (2015) and a BFA from Emily Carr University (2012). She has exhibited work in “Fresh Paint / New Construction” at Art Mûr Gallery in Montréal (2012); (e)merge art fair, Washington DC (2014); Open Space in Baltimore, MD (2015) and as well as various exhibitions in Philadelphia and Québec City. She is the 2015 recipient of the International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, and received the RBS Bursary from The Royal British Society of Sculptors for the years 2016-2018.

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February 25 - April 1, 2017

Opening Reception: 
Saturday, February 25
7-9 pm

Artist Talk: 
Wednesday, March 15
7 pm

Hamiltonian Artists:
Aschely Cone 
Magali Hébert-Huot 
 

 

 

 

January 2017

January 2017

NAKEYA BROWN | SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED

CHRISTIE NEPTUNE | MS. ________ (INTERIOR)

Ms. ____ (Interior) is a followup to Christie Neptune's Eye of the Storm, a 3-part multimedia series that examines how constructs of race, gender and class limit the personal experiences of historically marginalized bodies of color.