COLLECTION NAME:
University Art Galleries (UMassD)
Record
exhibition_title:
EXQUISITE Work by Sarah Bliss, Allison Paschke, and Sand T
exhibition_dates:
January 28 - March 10, 2011
exhibition_year:
2011
exhibition_location:
University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)
exhibition_curator:
Lasse B. Antonsen
exhibition_note:
EXQUISITE is an exhibition that celebrates the delight in seeing and investigating. The three artists, each in their own way, explore light, transparency, layering, bubbles, and color, and materials such as plastic and epoxy resin. They challenge us to find a different kind of beauty, one often inherent in generally available commercial products. The work brings about a new awareness of the reading of space and narrative structures. Although each artist's work lies within the realm of traditional painting and sculpture, the work is first and foremost constructed objects that call attention to their process of creation. The artists give us clues as to further investigations, asking us to project our own sensibility into the play of surface and light, and hints at a possible larger context, whether related to our dependence on oil (Sarah Bliss), hidden or secret story telling (Allison Paschke), or the commercial vocabularies that makes us take delight in candy wrappers, even before we put the candy in our mouth (Sand T). Themes intertwine: death, nostalgia, and the languages of commercials, blend with modes of seeing, with delight and quiet ecstasy.
exhibition_genre:
painting
exhibition_genre:
sculpture
resourceID:
11AllisonPaschke_01
resource_type:
photographs
copyright notice:
COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
credit line:
UMass Dartmouth Art Galleries
artist name:
Paschke, Allison
artist_nationality:
American
artist_biographical note:
The Providence, Rhode Island artist, Allison Paschke, holds an MFA (1999) in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She writes about her work: "My pieces are developed intuitively, balancing desires and impulses. The results create tensions between opposing concepts." And: "The impulse toward delicacy and fragility can lead toward a sense of our own mortality. The attraction to the ephemeral quality of light also emphasizes the passage of time."
work_title:
Blue Strata: Missing Letters on the Edge
work_medium:
epoxy resin, inks, insect pins, gold leaf
work_technique:
sculpture
work_date:
ca. 2010
date_of_ record:
2013/02/02
name_cataloger:
ajc
Blue Strata: Missing Letters on the Edge
