Point of views: Art that demands a second - maybe even a third - look - Creative Loafing - by Megan Voeller - 6/14/07
Greene Contemporary announces the first of three summer group shows. Parallax Views featuring the work of seven artists will open on Friday June 1st with a preview from 6 to 9 PM. The exhibition will continue Saturday June 2 through Saturday June 30, 2007. Greene Contemporary is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 to 6 PM.
Parallax Views will introduce the work of Laura Bond, Cynthia Camlin, Andrew Junge,
John Mack, Babs Reingold, Marc Roder and Shoshannah White. Each of the artists in this group show has a unique viewpoint. The show represents a wide range of media and approaches to making art by four women and three men. Materials used in the work includes: fiber such as cotton and silk, metals such as iron, copper, steel, cedar, and other materials such as neon and tea. These are in addition to conventional materials of paper, canvas, paint, paper and pencils.
Laura Bond creates clothing designs to wear that also function as sculpture. Her cloth objects that are suspended from the ceiling belie the fact that they can shield the body.
Cynthia Camlin paints watercolors of abstract crystallized structures. The illusion of space is created through perspective, color and value in complex patterns where in her process planes are added to planes. Andrew Junge recycles materials from contemporary culture in his sculpture made of neon and found objects. John Mack makes objects from copper, cedar and canvas that present a sculptor's view of sophisticated "spacecraft." Babs Reingold combines natural materials on paper and canvas in a process that creates formal work that recognizes the importance of chance, time and suspension. Marc Roder uses oil paint and canvas to comment on the tenuous nature of relationships in our post modern contemporary culture. Shoshanna White begins with a small photograph and transforms it into an organic and visceral object after subtle layers of paint and encaustic.
Laura Bond who lives in New York grew up in Germany. She recently graduated from Ringling College of Art & Design with majors in Sculpture & Printmaking. She also studied at Parsons The New School of Design. Bond studied fashion illustration at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has always been interested in fashion and in 2006 was included in the "Wearable Art Show" at the Dunedin Fine Arts Center. Since her earliest experiences taking "Creative Connections" art workshops in Germany, Bond has been interested in the relationship between fashion and art.
Cynthia Camlin received her BA in English and Studio Art from Duke University. She then received her MA in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. After taking courses in drawing, painting, design and art history at Yale she went on to receive her MFA in Painting and Drawing from The University of Texas at Austin. Camlin has been included in numerous group exhibitions in Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. She is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and fellowships. Camlin is a frequent lecturer and was the curator of more than thirty-five exhibitions as the founding Director of Creative Research Laboratory, Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. Camlin is a Professor of Painting at West Virginia University.
Andrew Junge studied Fine Arts and Broadcasting at Central Wyoming College. He received his BFA in Painting and Sculpture from Boston University School of Fine Arts where he minored in Art History. He received his MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco where he focused on painting and drawing. Junge has been included in numerous exhibitions. He teaches printmaking at California College of the Arts where he is also a Lecturer and Graduate Studio Advisor. He is an Adjunct Faculty member of the University of San Francisco. He lives in San Francisco. Greene Contemporary is currently showing "American Detritus" Junge's Styrofoam Hummer - a full-scale vehicle he made from material he claimed from Norcal the San Francisco recycling and disposal site. This work will be shown at the Tampa Museum of Art from July through September of this year.
www.jungeart.com
John Mack was born in Illinois. He studied Forestry at Vermillion Community College in Ely, Minnesota. He received his BFA in Sculpture from the Ringling College of Art & Design where he also participated in several group exhibitions. He studied in Aix en Provence, France and was part of a group show there at the Center for Art and Culture. Mack lives in Sarasota.
Babs Reingold was born in Caracas, Venezuela and then moved to Dallas, Texas. She completed high school and college in Cleveland. She received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA in Painting from SUNY in Buffalo. Her work can be found in the collections of the Newark Museum as well as numerous corporate and private collections. Reingold's work has been included in solo and group shows throughout the United States. Her work has been recognized by Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Douglas Schultz, Director and Michael Auping, Curator of the Albright-Knox Gallery. Her work has been reviewed often including the New York Times by Helen A. Harrison in 2006 for "Sculptures that don't fit the traditional definitions" and Holland Cotter's "Home is Where the Art is." She has taught art at the college level in Buffalo at Buffalo State College, Villa Maria College and the State University of New York. Reingold has studios in New York and St. Petersburg, Florida.
www.babsreingold.com
Marc Roder studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. He received his BA in Fine Art from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He was awarded his MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania where he had a full teaching fellowship. His work has been included in individual and group shows and is in the collection of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. He has worked for John Yau and Julian Schnabel. He includes the late paintings of Philip Guston as an important reference point as well as David Park and Vincent van Gogh. The textual sources of his current work's themes include Carl Jung, Ovid, Shakespeare, John LeCarré, Walt Disney and Homer (the Greek and Simpson). He collects quotations from all over the globe. He lives his life in three places: on a small island in British Columbia, Canada, in Miami, Florida, and in a small town in Oregon
Shoshannah White received her BFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design. She worked with Mary Ellen Mark while she was living in New York. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications including: Paris Vogue, Newsweek and Psychology Today. White's work has been seen in numerous group exhibitions throughout the country. She has received three major commissions from the Percent for Art Commission in Maine. White lives and works in Portland, Maine.
www.shoshannahwhite.com