Two exhibitions
dal 9/9/2005 al 6/10/2005
Segnalato da
9/9/2005
Two exhibitions
Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte
Marek Ranis captures the landscape's devastating beauty with both gestural strokes and areas of concentrated brushwork that enunciate the vastness of the icy terrain and specific sites of disintegration. Radcliffe Bailey's work is known for the vital connections it makes: between art and life, people and the land, ancestors and their descendants.
Marek Ranis - Albedo I
Joie Lassiter Gallery proudly presents the first installment of a three-part show – ‘Albedo I’ paintings by Marek Ranis, September 10th - October 6th
Ranis, one of the foremost figures in the Charlotte art scene applies his social, conceptual and environmental concerns to a wide range of projects. Project Albedo is a body of work incorporating painting, photography, video and installation, which examines via satellite imagery, the effect of global warming on the earth’s coldest regions. Albedo (Latin: white) is a measure between 1 and 0 of the earth’s reflectivity, the higher the number the cooler the earth. Presently the earth has an albedo of 0.3, which is decreasing with alarming rapidity.
The landscapes that Ranis pays tribute to enable us to view this enormous and pressing issue on a more comprehensive human scale. A window onto a vanishing world and vital part of our Eco-system - rarely seen or even considered in our daily existence, but whose disappearance will change our lives forever. Albedo highlights the human impact upon the earth, and asks us to reevaluate our norms, beliefs, actions and inactions.
Albedo I documents pack ice - floes, bergs, shelves and glaciers in a series of paintings inspired by satellite images. Ranis captures the landscape’s devastating beauty with both gestural strokes and areas of concentrated brushwork that enunciate the vastness of the icy terrain and specific sites of disintegration.
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Radcliffe Bailey - Works on Paper
Joie Lassiter Gallery is proud to present Radcliffe Bailey. Born in 1968 in Bridgeton, New Jersey and now living and working in Atlanta, Bailey has become one of the most recognized Southeastern artists in America. His work portrays a unique environment that tells the story of his African American heritage and is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institute and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
The exhibition “Works on Paper†opens for the public Saturday September, 10th and runs through October 6th at the new Joie Lassiter Gallery in SouthEnd.
Radcliffe Bailey’s work is in numerous permanent collections such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institute. The formal quality of his work suggests the conceptual characteristic of early Johns or Rauschenberg. But it is Bailey's evocation of a kind of mystic urbanism, his use of rich expressive color, as well as plentiful allusions to Southern African-American folk culture - also characteristic of the work of artists such as David Hammons, Betye Saar and Jean-Michel Basquiat - that provide both improvisational bravura and an extravaganza of eccentric symbolism.
Bailey often uses broad, seemingly still-liquid strokes of indigo to define and accentuate a network of brighter colors and painterly gestures. Very often antique photographs of African-Americans - seated formal family shots, ancient baseball games, dignified individual portraits - are collaged into the lyrically gridlocked painting surface amid other decoration such as African dolls and felt ribbons. The paintings are scarred and marked with dates, numbers, names of cities and places that allude to an historical undercurrent. Place names saturated with black historical lore -- Louisiana, Angola, Mobile, Birmingham, Sierra Leone - are combined with briskly painted phrases and filigreed brushstrokes.
Bailey's work is known for the vital connections it makes: between art and life, people and the land, ancestors and their descendants. ''Growing up, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents and great-grandparents,'' he says, ''and I feel like that's lost in most families today. In my art, I try to restore some of the lost kinship between people.'' Bailey is inspired by — and often uses — old family photographs and heirlooms in his work.
Joie Lassiter Gallery
1440 South Tryon Street #104 - Charlotte, NC 28203
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 4pm,
Monday by appointment