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23/2/2012

Three solo shows

Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago

Camille Iemmolo
Secret Society
mixed media and installation

Camille Iemmolo's art comes from a raw place somewhere inside.  She grew up in a religious household with a complex cast of family members: sailors, painters, crafters, fine furniture makers, radio pioneers, collectors and even Vaudevillian singers.  And then there are the nurses...those that saved with their tall dark tales.  To escape Iemmolo took to riding her horse and recently took it up to escape again.  This past May, she took a very serious fall over a jump and broke her neck, just escaping death, a sure miracle that she walks today.  When she fell from her high horse literally, came this body of work, Secret Society.

Secret Society is an odd body of work using mostly found object materials with drawing elements: Paper, charcoal, trash, tape, staples, wire, band-aids, paint, string and more tape.  There are also large-scale installation elements.  Thousands of packaged band-aids adhered with tape...manifesting in a 10-foot house dedicated to her brother and daughter and metaphorically...the world's condition-human suffering and how we endure.  This body of work is concerned with what you thought your life would become when a child…what your life has become and space in-between.  A place where our minds, not always aware, seem to rest comfortably.  A place of denial.  The secrets we as a society whisper to ourselves. The difficulty of looking long and hard in the mirror.

The work is clean, simple, childlike, light and airy, yet full of dark human truths.  Though the work is quiet, one hopes the viewer will watch closely….like a ghost passing across a silent movie, stirring loud and in their soul.

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Dana DeAno
Field Dressing
mixed media on paper / sculpture

Artificial landscapes move stealthily throughout Dana DeAno's new work.  In playing with domestic throw- aways, flea market treasures, broken scraps and bits, the borders seem to get fuzzy; often hidden, murky, illusionary.  Ideas of rural spances breed as ambiguities rise and fall throughout the work.  She is continually pushing and pulling, filling and editing, climbing and descending, revealing and concealing through the work. DeAno calls it all drawing, as this is what she has done for so long; drawing with textiles, drawing through building with controlled chaos, drawing with reusable craft, and all in a casual manner.  It becomes almost a pile of orchestrated randomness, topped with a teaspoon of clarity. Ideas of space, time, land, dioramas, farm and peek inside panoramic sugared eggs dance in her head daily. 

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Nancy Mladenoff
The Ladies
work on paper

Over the past several years Mladenoff has concentrated on mixed-media oil painting, flashe/gouache, and watercolor by delving into ideas of natural history, botany, entomology, ornithology, geography, and history as they relate to contemporary culture. The current research involves the work of early American woman naturalists, earth and animal scientists, explorers, outlaws, musicians and athletes who lived during the 18th through 20th centuries. The paintings are a metaphorical classification of female mentors/alter egos that is grounded in the past but can be relevant to present concerns in contemporary painting. Through the work, Mladenoff learns about the history and lives of American women who were driven to make significant accomplishments beyond wife and mother, against a considerably unsupportive culture. The imagery that is created reflects my conceptual, philosophical, and psychological interests that engage with issues in contemporary art.

Artists’ Reception: Friday, February 24, 2012 6 – 9 PM

Packer Schopf Gallery
942 W Lake Street Chicago
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5:30pm
Admission free

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