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Singularities
Singularities brings together seven artists -- Christopher Ganz, Rachel Gargiulo, Raul Gonzalez, Jessica Merrell, Ted Ollier, Karen Schiff, and Jen Thomas -- whose work is grounded in contemporary methodologies. Thomas’s ideas of what is natural and Ollier’s scale sculpture of the Earth and Moon system explore artists’ relationships to natural science and representation. Schiff and Merrell discuss our perceptions of the world around us through site-specific rubbings and meditative symmetry. Ganz’s realistic renderings of industrial fantasy, Gargiulo’s impeccably drawn double self-portrait from photographs, and Gonzalez’s fantastic update to the historical myth of the founding fathers all create masks behind which these artists can hide, while focusing attention on specific, amplified characteristics of their personalities. November 2 -- December 17, 2007
All seven of these artists work primarily on paper, and they have established their work in galleries around the country. Gargiulo received The Yousuf Karash Prize In Photography from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2006. Merrell and Ollier won Juror awards at the 60th Anniversary Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial. Thomas recently completed a residency at Ragdale in Lake Forest, IL, and Schiff was in residency at Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM and was an Edward Albee Foundation Fellow for 2007. Ganz had a successful show, Alter Egos: Drawings and Self-Portraits at Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH. Gonzalez has had shows at the Aidekman Gallery, Essex Art Center, and RHYS Gallery this year with the Miracle 5!
John Pyper attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University where he received his BFA. He runs the Bow & Arrow Press of Adams House, Harvard and is the master intaglio printer at Shepherd Print Studio in Cambridge. He has curated Dyscalculia, Thingamajigs, and Stylewriter for the Southern Graphics Council conferences in 2007 and 2008. He co-curated Salad Days with Alex Brooks of Lexington, KY. Salad Days will be at LexArts City Gallery – Downtown Arts Center from October 27 through November 30, 2007. His own recent shows have been at the 808 Gallery of Boston University, Grub St. Boston, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is collected by the Boston Public Library and makes a mean omelet.
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