The [Extra] Ordinaries
Anna Kell
Travis Childers
Amy Bassin
Mark Blickley
Holly Wilson
7. 7. 2016 - 8. 4. 2016
Anna Kell
Travis Childers
Amy Bassin
Mark Blickley
Holly Wilson
7. 7. 2016 - 8. 4. 2016
Ray Gallery is pleased to present The [Extra] Ordinaries, a summer group show of artists exploring and transforming ordinary matters in their works. Participating artists include Anna Kell, Travis Childers, Holly Wilson, and Amy Bassin & Mark Blickley.
Travis Childers uses everyday materials as the starting point for my work. The materials he uses are ordinary, however, he makes interesting statements about the world around us and human nature. His works aim to invoke a response by playing with scale and repetition, as well as with feelings of repulsion, intimacy and sometimes preciousness. Chilers received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. His works have been shown in different institutions including White Columns Gallery, Central Booking Gallery, Virginia Center for Contemporary Art, and District Of Columbia Art Center.
Amy Bassin and Mark Blickley’s text-based art collaboration, Dream Streams, have been published in the Columbia Journal of Literature & Art, Three Rooms Press annual Dada anthologies archived in MoMA’s collection, Maintenance 9 & 10(0); Rouge Agent, Great Weather for Media, Gravel, Boog City and others. This series was also featured as an art installation in 2015 at the 5th Annual NYC Poetry Festival on Governors Island. One of our collaborative videos, Speaking In Bootongue, was included in the full-length exquisite corpse film, The Spaces Between Cities, which premiered last December at The Grand Illusion Cinema in Seattle and has been included in festivals worldwide. Amy Bassin is a fine art photographer/video artist from New York City with a BFA from the School of Visual Art and co-founder of the international artists collective, Urban Dialogues. She recently exhibited her series, #Selfie Fictions, at the Bronx Art Space. Mark Blickley is a widely published writer and playwright. His most recent book is Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press). His latest play about the under recognized French feminist artist Suzanne Valadon, Valadon: Reclining Nude, premieres this Fall at the 13th Street Repertory Theater. He is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild and PEN American Center.
Holly Wilson a new media installation sculpture artist from Columbus, OH. She currently lives and works in Syracuse, NY co-directing a local gallery called Apostrophe’ S. Her art work adheres to site specific environments and questions the banality and exercises of the everyday. Holly received her BFA in sculpture from Syracuse University in May 2015. She recently created site specific work in the international art fair, ARTROOMS 2016 in London, UK. Her video work was recently projected on the Great Wall of Oakland, as well as the CNY Art Film Festival, Munson-Williams-Proctor, Utica, NY, and the Art Film Festival Burning Birch X3, Trash Palace, Toronto, ON. Holly’s conglomerative installations involve projection mapping onto her sculptures and environments to create an immersive transportation to a new reality.
Anna Kell’s paintings and installations have been featured in exhibitions nationally at venues such as the Jolie Laide Gallery in Philadelphia, the Governor’s Island Art Fair, the AC Institute and Caelum Gallery in Chelsea, Root Division in San Francisco, and the ARC Gallery in Chicago. She is currently Assistant Professor at Bucknell University, where she teaches painting and drawing.
Kell’s work is an investigation into the way nature is represented in our cultural commodities. She builds paintings and installations out of existing images of idealized nature: wallpapers, found paintings and prints, needlework, puzzles, posters, labels, patterned textiles, upholstered furniture, rugs, floral mattresses and even lampshades. These domestic ephemera become a visual vocabulary revealing the discrepancy between our cultural reality and an illusion of “the natural”.
Travis Childers uses everyday materials as the starting point for my work. The materials he uses are ordinary, however, he makes interesting statements about the world around us and human nature. His works aim to invoke a response by playing with scale and repetition, as well as with feelings of repulsion, intimacy and sometimes preciousness. Chilers received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. His works have been shown in different institutions including White Columns Gallery, Central Booking Gallery, Virginia Center for Contemporary Art, and District Of Columbia Art Center.
Amy Bassin and Mark Blickley’s text-based art collaboration, Dream Streams, have been published in the Columbia Journal of Literature & Art, Three Rooms Press annual Dada anthologies archived in MoMA’s collection, Maintenance 9 & 10(0); Rouge Agent, Great Weather for Media, Gravel, Boog City and others. This series was also featured as an art installation in 2015 at the 5th Annual NYC Poetry Festival on Governors Island. One of our collaborative videos, Speaking In Bootongue, was included in the full-length exquisite corpse film, The Spaces Between Cities, which premiered last December at The Grand Illusion Cinema in Seattle and has been included in festivals worldwide. Amy Bassin is a fine art photographer/video artist from New York City with a BFA from the School of Visual Art and co-founder of the international artists collective, Urban Dialogues. She recently exhibited her series, #Selfie Fictions, at the Bronx Art Space. Mark Blickley is a widely published writer and playwright. His most recent book is Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press). His latest play about the under recognized French feminist artist Suzanne Valadon, Valadon: Reclining Nude, premieres this Fall at the 13th Street Repertory Theater. He is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild and PEN American Center.
Holly Wilson a new media installation sculpture artist from Columbus, OH. She currently lives and works in Syracuse, NY co-directing a local gallery called Apostrophe’ S. Her art work adheres to site specific environments and questions the banality and exercises of the everyday. Holly received her BFA in sculpture from Syracuse University in May 2015. She recently created site specific work in the international art fair, ARTROOMS 2016 in London, UK. Her video work was recently projected on the Great Wall of Oakland, as well as the CNY Art Film Festival, Munson-Williams-Proctor, Utica, NY, and the Art Film Festival Burning Birch X3, Trash Palace, Toronto, ON. Holly’s conglomerative installations involve projection mapping onto her sculptures and environments to create an immersive transportation to a new reality.
Anna Kell’s paintings and installations have been featured in exhibitions nationally at venues such as the Jolie Laide Gallery in Philadelphia, the Governor’s Island Art Fair, the AC Institute and Caelum Gallery in Chelsea, Root Division in San Francisco, and the ARC Gallery in Chicago. She is currently Assistant Professor at Bucknell University, where she teaches painting and drawing.
Kell’s work is an investigation into the way nature is represented in our cultural commodities. She builds paintings and installations out of existing images of idealized nature: wallpapers, found paintings and prints, needlework, puzzles, posters, labels, patterned textiles, upholstered furniture, rugs, floral mattresses and even lampshades. These domestic ephemera become a visual vocabulary revealing the discrepancy between our cultural reality and an illusion of “the natural”.