Rooves Berths Currents, Margot Spindelman, 2014-2015.
Across Section, Christopher Kardambikis, 2015, Edition of 2.
Ray Gallery is pleased to announce Ellipsis, a two-artists exhibition with works on paper by Margot Spindelman, and art book pieces by Christopher Kardambikis. Ellipsis is a series of dots that often indicates an intentional omission of a word, a suggestion of untold stories. Incorporating narratives that are both traumatic and playful, these works are all rooted in the human intuition. Using narratives, Spindelman and Kardambikis have created a series of works on a monthly basis project.
Spindelman's drawings describe tenuous places. Landscapes that shift planes before solidity (and security) coalesce. There are references to rain and water, roofs and windows, decay and distress. Elements emerge, submerge, and disappear. Her most recent series, “Roofs, Berths and Currents,” was developed as the climate is altering, creating a creating a traumatic landscape both locally and globally. The rhythm of these pieces is created by the play of marks, the tough or elegiac line of a fountain pen meeting an incursion of color. The drawings are made on small, irregular pieces of paper. They are gessoed squares on remnants, like found shards— aftermath.
Kardambikis's art books are methodical objects. The products of one part chance, one part meticulous intervention, Kardambikis’s books are visual assemblages. Using a variety of techniques, ranging from drawing to printing, he grabs from his past and present. He collages a visual language that describes his life with books as his companions, or how he may accompany them. He carefully arranges, prints, marks, and reprints page after page, sometimes editing retroactively. Whole pages covered by another, which can only be experienced through a circular cutout, we are left desperately staring through a keyhole. We hold these books in our hands though they hint at different times and places.
Margot Spindelman is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York, whose most recent work concentrates primarily on drawing— intimate explorations of place, home, security and loss. She has had solo shows in New York at both the Perlow Gallery and Platform Gallery, and participated in a number of group shows around the United States. Spindelman has received both a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (2004) and a George Sugarman Foundation Grant (2007). She earned her Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, and her Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Christopher Kardambikis seeks an absurd mythology for the future through drawings, paintings, and books. Currently, he is continuing his ongoing Book-a-Month project playing with the book form, while experimenting with materials, process, and space. He has co-founded three artist book and zine projects: Encyclopedia Destructica in Pittsburgh, Gravity and Trajectory in San Diego, and 90 Proof Press in Los Angeles. Kardambikis has been an artist-in-residence at The Art Students League, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony, Pioneer Works, and the Pittsburgh Center of the Arts. He received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and MFA from the University of California, San Diego. He is the host of Paper Cuts, a program on Clocktower Radio that explores the contemporary world of zines and DIY publishing. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Spindelman's drawings describe tenuous places. Landscapes that shift planes before solidity (and security) coalesce. There are references to rain and water, roofs and windows, decay and distress. Elements emerge, submerge, and disappear. Her most recent series, “Roofs, Berths and Currents,” was developed as the climate is altering, creating a creating a traumatic landscape both locally and globally. The rhythm of these pieces is created by the play of marks, the tough or elegiac line of a fountain pen meeting an incursion of color. The drawings are made on small, irregular pieces of paper. They are gessoed squares on remnants, like found shards— aftermath.
Kardambikis's art books are methodical objects. The products of one part chance, one part meticulous intervention, Kardambikis’s books are visual assemblages. Using a variety of techniques, ranging from drawing to printing, he grabs from his past and present. He collages a visual language that describes his life with books as his companions, or how he may accompany them. He carefully arranges, prints, marks, and reprints page after page, sometimes editing retroactively. Whole pages covered by another, which can only be experienced through a circular cutout, we are left desperately staring through a keyhole. We hold these books in our hands though they hint at different times and places.
Margot Spindelman is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York, whose most recent work concentrates primarily on drawing— intimate explorations of place, home, security and loss. She has had solo shows in New York at both the Perlow Gallery and Platform Gallery, and participated in a number of group shows around the United States. Spindelman has received both a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (2004) and a George Sugarman Foundation Grant (2007). She earned her Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, and her Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Christopher Kardambikis seeks an absurd mythology for the future through drawings, paintings, and books. Currently, he is continuing his ongoing Book-a-Month project playing with the book form, while experimenting with materials, process, and space. He has co-founded three artist book and zine projects: Encyclopedia Destructica in Pittsburgh, Gravity and Trajectory in San Diego, and 90 Proof Press in Los Angeles. Kardambikis has been an artist-in-residence at The Art Students League, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony, Pioneer Works, and the Pittsburgh Center of the Arts. He received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and MFA from the University of California, San Diego. He is the host of Paper Cuts, a program on Clocktower Radio that explores the contemporary world of zines and DIY publishing. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.