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Reticulate
June 21 - August 17, 2013



The exhibition explores the work of artists who employ various types of reticulation, or imagery of webs and nets, in their work. Vija Celmins’ print of a gossamer-fine spiderweb conveys uniqueness and visual complexity, strength as well as vulnerability, while Ruth Waldman’s network is a web of a different order. In her colored pencil drawing, Boschian imagery of pierced, vaguely figurative shapes suggests entrapment, pleasure and pain. The limitless expansiveness of infinite space and the cosmological mapping of the universe are explored in a 1978 enamel and pigment painting on board by Yayoi Kusama; Ivo Ringe’s vibrant and bold network pattern painting; Mark Sheinkman’s undulant and mysterious drawings, Laura Watt’s variegated and overlapping webs in gouache on paper; Devin Powers’ crisp, astral map-like linear drawings; Lori Ellison’s obsessive ballpoint drawings on notebook paper, which speak of worlds intimate and universal; and Cathryn Arcomano’s quiet Tantric-like painting of a delicate geometric network. Aric Obrosey cuts paper to create a network of silhouettes of dozens of motifs which reference labor. They coalesce and intertwine at the center to create a large image of a work glove. Daniel Hill’s rhythmic and linear painted webs allude to the continuous movement of sound vibrations. David Mann creates linkages between clusters in his painting, suggesting not only microscopic synaptic activity but also connections between larger groups and communities. Laura Sharp Wilson paints a variety of ropes, chains, and links which obscure, bind and reveal layers of history in her idiosyncratic paintings, while Jason Rohlf’s expansive and colorful quilt-like prisms speak of linkages of memory and personal experience. Jason Karolak’s layered linear paintings recall architectural structures and explore iteration and growth, while Mark Lombardi’s drawing and Loren Munk’s painting examine and dissect reality-based social, political, artistic and financial communities.
 
 
  Cathryn Arcomano, Mirae Series #33
Cathryn Arcomano
Mirae Series #33, 1981
Oil on canvasette
10 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
Vija Celmins, Untitled (Web 3)
Vija Celmins
Untitled (Web 3), 2002
1-color photogravure/
aquatint/drypoint
Edition 20/65
21 x 24 1/2 inches
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10129
Lori Ellison
Untitled, 2012
Ink on notebook paper
11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches
  Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10113
Lori Ellison
Untitled, 2010
Ink on notebook paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10116
Lori Ellison
Untitled, 2012
Ink on notebook paper
11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10151
Lori Ellison
Untitled, 1999
Ink on notebook paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
  Daniel Hill, Untitled 33
Daniel Hill
Untitled 33, 2012
Acrylic polymer emulsion
on paper mounted on board
11 x 14 7/8 inches
Daniel Hill, Untitled 1
Daniel Hill
Untitled 1, 2013
Acrylic polymer emulsion
on paper mounted on board
11 x 14 7/8 inches
Jason Karolak, Untitled (P-1305)
Jason Karolak
Untitled (P-1305), 2013
Oil on canvas
84 x 71 inches
  Yayoi Kusama, Rain within Swamp
Yayoi Kusama
Rain within Swamp, 1978
Enamel spray paint and
mineral pigment on Shikishi board
10 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches
Mark Lombardi, Cabazon Arms of Indio
Mark Lombardi
Cabazon Arms of Indio,
California,circa 1978-88
(third version), 1999
Graphite on paper
13 x 17 inches
David Mann, Barcelona
David Mann
Barcelona, 2012
Acrylic and oil on canvas stretched over board
72 x 65 inches
  Loren Munk, Symbolic Clusters
Loren Munk
Symbolic Clusters, 2010
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Aric Obrosey, Hand Production Lines
Aric Obrosey
Hand Production Lines, 2009
Cut paper
41 1/2 x 59 1/2 inches
Devin Powers, Chorus
Devin Powers
Chorus, 2013
Blue pigmented pva and
gouache on Kozo paper
37 x 25 inches
  Devin Powers, The Point
Devin Powers
The Point, 2010
Ink on vellum
8 x 16 inches
Ivo Ringe, Right on Top of the Skin
Ivo Ringe
Right on Top of the Skin, 2011
Acrylic on linen
28 x 24 inches
Jason Rohlf, Soundings
Jason Rohlf
Soundings, 2013
Acrylic on canvas
44 x 77 inches
  Mark Sheinkman, Wooster
Mark Sheinkman
Wooster, 2013
Oil, alkyd and graphite on paper
16 x 13 inches
Mark Sheinkman, Mercer
Mark Sheinkman
Mercer, 2013
Oil, alkyd and graphite on paper
16 x 13 inches
Ruth Waldman, Untitled 028
Ruth Waldman
Untitled 028, 2005
Colored pencil on paper
26 x 21 inches
  Ruth Waldman, Untitled 039
Ruth Waldman
Untitled 039, 2006
Pencil on paper
16 x 12 inches
Laura Watt, Sound Systems Study #3
Laura Watt
Sound Systems Study #3, 2013
Gouache on paper
19 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches
Laura Sharp Wilson, The I Want to Be Somewhere Else Option
Laura Sharp Wilson
The I Want to Be Somewhere Else Option, 2007
Acrylic and graphite on
Unryu paper mounted on wood
38 x 38 inches
  Laura Sharp Wilson, Four Way Noose
Laura Sharp Wilson
Four Way Noose, 2013
Acrylic and graphite on
Unryu paper mounted on wood
14 x 11 inches
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