Exhibition | Tactile Sublime
Exhibition: Water is Everything at Drive-by Projects in Watertown, MA, November 18, 2017 - January 16, 2018
DODOMU
Tactile Sublime
June 3 - 29, 2021
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dodomu is a contemporary online gallery with a team based in Brooklyn, NY. We focus on showcasing emerging artists through online group exhibitions and represent a variety of media such as painting, photography, sculpture, digital and mixed media with emphasis on abstraction. While currently all of our operations are virtual, our longterm goal is to open a physical space in the future as we continue to grow.
Exhibition | Postcards of Positivity
Exhibition: Postcards of Positivity, Artrinity, Dallas, TX, June 15 - July 31, 2020
Postcards of Positivity
Artrinity
Dallas, TX
June 15 - July 31, 2020
I donated three pieces to Postcards of Positivity, during the Pandemic, benefiting artists and Artist Relief organized by Artrinity and The Goss-Michael Foundation
For more information visit Artrinity
Images: Untitled l, ll, lll, ink, pigmented graphite, rust, wax on topographic maps, mounted to paper, 6" x 4", 2020.
Collaboration | Joshua Hagler
Exhibition: Postcards of Positivity, Collaboration with Joshua Hagler, Artrinity, Dallas, TX, June 15 - July 31, 2020
Postcards of Positivity
Artrinity
Dallas, TX
June 15 - July 31, 2020
I collaborated on this piece with Joshua Hagler and we donated it to Postcards of Positivity, during the Pandemic, benefiting artists and Artist Relief organized by Artrinity and The Goss-Michael Foundation
For more information visit Artrinity
Image: Untitled, 2020, ink oil and wax on collaged topographic map, 6 x 4 inches
A collaboration between Shannon Rankin & Joshua Hagler
Copyright The Artists
Exhibition | Simulacrush
Exhibition | [ON]now | Simulacrush, CMCA's first virtual exhibition, curated by SISTERED, Dec 14, 2019 - Apr 5, 2020, https://cmcanow.org/event/on-now-simulacrush/
[ON]now | Simulacrush
CMCA's first virtual exhibition
curated by SISTERED
Dec 14, 2019 - Apr 5, 2020
Simulacrush features eighteen artists meditating on states of reality across media. This timely group of work wrestles with systems of difference, communicating and distorting truth in a hyperreal fashion—simulacra. In a moment where information is manifested, digested, and regurgitated with extreme speed, presenting this work in a virtual environment becomes necessary to understanding the states in which we find ourselves and the ways we manipulate it. Here there is an incredible amount of fact, so much that it becomes fiction, or does it? This group of work offers a glimpse at the creation of truth from a distorted copy of reality. This is liquid, urgent, thrashing, seductive.
Artists included:
Ben DeHaan, Zoe Fox, Elizabeth Hoy, Nate Luce, Heather Lyon, Mugwort (Jeonguk Choi + Soomin Kim), Oliver, Shannon Rankin, Joshua Reiman, Bob Richardson, Justin Richel, Tollef Runquist, Will Sears, Matt Shaw, Anoushe Shojae-Chaghorvand, Irina Skornyakova, Riley Watts, Robert Younger
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Review | The Rib
Water is Everything at Drive-By Projects, November 18, 2017-January 16, 2018, Review by Mallory A. Ruymann for The Rib
Water is Everything
Drive-By Projects
November 18, 2017-January 16, 2018
Review by Mallory A. Ruymann for The Rib
Water is Everything unpacks the physical, historical, and socio-political shape of water with paintings by Judith Belzer and Cheryl Molnar, and works on paper by Joseph Smolinski and Shannon Rankin.
Molnar's contribution, Cliffside, depicts a house balancing on the edge of a cliff, a structure which Molnar delicately incised into the painting’s wood support. Though not explicitly rendered, erosion and other landscape elements (represented by dense clusters of painted paper) associated with our rapidly changing coastlines hint at the presence of water. Belzer’s small untitled oil-on-canvases (from the Half Empty Half Full series) portray the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams. The breakdown of the renewable water cycle means that these dams will soon become obsolete, though their physical forms will persist. Belzer paints the dams in an abstract style that de-emphasizes their present function in favor of their form, presaging their unproductive--but stylized--future role as monuments. The future also concerns Smolinski, whose phosphorescent-like Open Water drawings capture the uncertainty of what climate change may do to bodies of water. Rankin’s Earth Embroideries preserve satellite images of arctic landscapes in the medium of thread on paper, counteracting the ongoing transformation wrought on those landscapes by slowly melting glaciers. A cluster of branded water bottles stands on a plinth at the front window of the exhibition. Not credited to any particular artist, the cooperative sourcing of these vessels offers a potential salve to water’s precarious state. By working collectively around shared goals, we can perhaps determine the destiny of water.
- Mallory A. Ruymann
Exhibition | Water is Everything
Exhibition: Water is Everything at Drive-by Projects in Watertown, MA, November 18, 2017 - January 16, 2018
Water is Everything
Drive-by Projects
Watertown, MA
November 18, 2017 - January 16, 2018
Opening reception: Saturday, November 18, 3-5pm
Hours: Thursday 12 - 4 pm or by appointment 617.835.8255
Water is Everything, an exhibition of paintings by Judith Belzer and Cheryl Molnar, and works on paper by Joseph Smolinski and Shannon Rankin.
WATER IS EVERYTHING
DRIVE-BY PROJECTS
NOVEMBER 18, 2017 - JANUARY 16, 2018
JUDITH BELZER
CHERYL MOLNAR
SHANNON RANKIN
JOSEPH SMOLINSKI
BY MALLORY A. RUYMANN
REACTION > WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS
JANUARY 25, 2018
Water is Everything unpacks the physical, historical, and socio-political shape of water with paintings by Judith Belzer and Cheryl Molnar, and works on paper by Joseph Smolinski and Shannon Rankin.
Molnar's contribution, Cliffside, depicts a house balancing on the edge of a cliff, a structure which Molnar delicately incised into the painting’s wood support. Though not explicitly rendered, erosion and other landscape elements (represented by dense clusters of painted paper) associated with our rapidly changing coastlines hint at the presence of water. Belzer’s small untitled oil-on-canvases (from the Half Empty Half Full series) portray the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams. The breakdown of the renewable water cycle means that these dams will soon become obsolete, though their physical forms will persist. Belzer paints the dams in an abstract style that de-emphasizes their present function in favor of their form, presaging their unproductive--but stylized--future role as monuments. The future also concerns Smolinski, whose phosphorescent-like Open Water drawings capture the uncertainty of what climate change may do to bodies of water. Rankin’s Earth Embroideriespreserve satellite images of arctic landscapes in the medium of thread on paper, counteracting the ongoing transformation wrought on those landscapes by slowly melting glaciers.
A cluster of branded water bottles stands on a plinth at the front window of the exhibition. Not credited to any particular artist, the cooperative sourcing of these vessels offers a potential salve to water’s precarious state. By working collectively around shared goals, we can perhaps determine the destiny of water.
Drive-By Projects
Located at 81 Spring Street in Watertown, MA, Drive-By is a small, innovative space committed to exhibiting provocative work in its storefront windows and small gallery.
Founded by Beth Kantrowitz (Allston Skirt Gallery) and Kathleen O'Hara (OHT Gallery), Drive-By is open Thursdays 12-4 and by appointment, though you can always drive by our windows to view the current exhibition.
drive-byprojects.com
Mallory A. Ruymann is an educator, curator, and art historian based in Boston.
Background image:
Shannon Rankin, Earth Emroidery (Glacial Furrows), 2016, hand stitched thread on paper, 7 x 7"