The SciArt Center in NYC has opened a new group exhibition – Submerged. The show is up for viewing through the SciArt Center online magazine. Stay tuned for the physical manifestation, TBA Spring 2018.
Happy to be a part of this survey of 15 contemporary artists working in graphite. Two of my oversized artists books are on display. Here’s the gallery’s website & here’s a review of the show: Times Union review_Graphite Visions.
An insightful review of my show at whitespace just posted to Burnaway. Give it a read.
An artist talk is planned for Saturday, October 1st. Swing by the gallery if you’re in Atlanta.
Burnaway just posted this video of me working on one of the large scale artist books for my show Docking on the Orphic Shore at whitespace in Atlanta. The show is up through October 15th.
I have a solo show opening in September at whitespace in Atlanta. Here’s the spiel:
September 9 – October 15, 2016
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
– Wendell Berry
Docking on the Orphic Shore is a collection of works by Seana Reilly exploring a place that does not lend itself to easy exposition, though many have tried to point the way by indirection. The Greeks told stories of Eurydice and Persephone in the underworld; the Zen masters posed riddles with one hand clapping; the Sufis joked about fishing in a barrel – all in an effort to touch lightly on this place without contaminating or burdening it.
The Orphic Shore cannot be approached entirely from one path, be it words, music, religion, math, philosophy, theoretical physics, or so many other toeholds. Discussions between these endeavors are often centered around boundaries and exclusions – the “yes, but”. The Orphic Shore is decidedly “yes, and”. Every one of these fields of inquiry, within its given parameters, adds to the exploration of this untethered place of human potential and awakening.
Reilly has chosen to approach this far shore by means of visual imagery resulting from a communion with the movement of water and earth. By subjecting her materials to the forces that drive the evolution of the earth, she creates imagery that is similar to the actual patterns carved into the surface of the planets, though on a much smaller temporal and spatial scale, one which she can hold in her hands. These explorations manifest in a variety of forms, from small works on paper to large hand-bound books full of pools and cascades of liquid graphite. She has little control over this liquid medium which continuously moves and changes, eventually settling into fixed patterns that could have been a thousand different things at any given moment. This body of work is the artist’s personal meditation on releasing control, giving up attachment to outcomes, and finding equanimity and peace by immersing the self in the transitory and the actual.
Whitespace Gallery
814 Edgewood Ave. NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia has two of my largest paintings to date hanging in their Abstraction Today show. The two pieces, Cascadence I and Cascadence II, are an 8′ tall diptych executed in a paste form of graphite. The show is up through July 2nd. Here’s one review. And here’s another.
I’ve got an artist talk scheduled for Valentines Day weekend in Asheville. Come by on Saturday 2/13/16 @ 2pm to learn a little bit about how and why I make what I make.
Hambidge is having a benefit auction in Atlanta on Saturday, May 30th.
Here’s my donation to the cause. It’s the first foray into a new body of work…. something small to start with. Hm, it looked very blue to me until it’s sitting right under this cobalt auction banner. Abyssal.o1, graphite and pigment on aluminum panel, 12″x12″.
