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Sandra Burns, Tricia Wright and
Lynne
Allen
Interior
Perspectives
June 3 - July 2,
2010
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NEW YORK, NY -June 3, 2010-
Tria
Gallery presents Interior Perspectives, featuring works by artists
Sandra
Burns,
Tricia Wright and Lynne Allen, through July 2, 2010.
Despite the disparate
media and
styles
employed by these artists, their work is nevertheless connected by
the
universal theme of Home and the physical and psychological interiors
thereof. As a photographer, Ms. Burns deconstructs
and
reconstructs the spatial relationship between body and structure
without
photographic manipulation. Tricia
Wright's
paintings explore decorative interior and exteriors, while her mixed media
work
utilizes everyday objects to convey both the simplicity and beauty in
ordinary
daily chores. Hook, Line and Sinker, a neon piece by
Ms. Allen, openly
expresses
her thoughts about her everyday
world.
One's relationship to
Home, particularly
a
woman's relationship, is often fraught with incongruity.
These three artists use the physical
materials
of the domestic environment as metaphors for the psychological interior.
Pattern and repetition play a
central,
defining role in their work, suggesting interior beauty, or routine, or
perhaps
even the bars of a gilded cage.
Sandra
Clark Burns states that her work "roots in
the
relationship between past interior environments and the systematic chaos
that
can occur within." She
explains:
It's
the fragment of resistance between
a
structure and the action taking place that I find intriguing.
The repetitious aspects of my work are
a
utilization of accumulated imagery that continually compiles upon itself.
It is within this accrued imagery that
an
act or performance is emitted and
documented.
Burns received a BFA from Parsons
School
of Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. She is currently a Lecturer at the
Yale
School of Art in the Department of Sculpture.
In 2008-09 she was an artist in residence at The MacDowell Colony
and
the recipient of the Chenven Foundation Grant.
She has received an artist grant from the Connecticut Commission of
the
Arts and the Vermont Studio Center Clowes Fellowship. Burns' work has been
shown and
collected
throughout the country. This is
her
first exhibition in New
York.
Tricia
Wright states
that her work draws on "our complex,
often
ambivalent, relationship to the Home," and employs the physical
materials
of
the domestic environment as metaphors for the psychological interior:
Pattern plays a central,
defining role
in
my work, and has its roots in my background growing up in England in a
culture
with a long tradition of decorative interiors.
My sources are primarily wallpaper and
textile designs, often from
the
60s and 70s, chosen for their potential to
conjure personal and
cultural
associations and - paradoxically -
for their generic,
mass-produced
anonymity.
Born and raised in
England,
Wright
received her degrees from Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, and
the
Camberwell and the ChelseaSchools of Art in
London. She moved to New York ten
years
ago, and now runs a full time studio on the Hudson
River,
regularly
exhibiting her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the
New York area and
on
the West Coast. She is the recipient
of
numerous residencies and awards, and a frequent lecturer and panel member
throughout
the region on general topics of art and color theory. Her
work can be found in the United
States
Embassy; the Hove Museum of Art, the 20th Century British
Art
Collection in the U.K.
Corporate collectors of Wright's work
include
Alliance Bernstein, White & Case, Metromedia International Group,
Kent
County Council, and the University of Wales. David Bowie is among
the many
personal
collectors of her work.
Lynne
Allen works in different media,
including
photogravure, miniature glass objects and neon sculpture, all of which she
infuses
with a unique sense of style and humor.
In
Interior
Perspectives her neon sculpture,
Hook,
Line and Sinker, is on display as a complement to the work of Tricia
Wright
and Sandra Burns. It amusingly
evokes
the all-encompassing, mechanized nature of running a Home.
Allen writes that the neon sign "is a kind
of
lure, seducing the viewer under false or misleading pretenses."
She adds, "Things are not always as they
seem,
and we are not to believe appearances, even in
art."
Allen received her MA
from the University of
Washington, a Master Printer Certification
from
Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, and her MFA from the
University of New
Mexico.
She has had numerous solo exhibitions and dozens of
group
exhibitions. Her work is in
the
permanent collections of museums and corporations throughout the
world,
including the WhitneyMuseum of Art, the
Museum of Modern
Art in New York, the
Victoria and AlbertMuseum in
London, the Corcoran Museum of Art in WashingtonD.C., Johnson & Johnson
Corporation,
and
countless others. She is also
recipient
of numerous awards, honors, fellowships and
residencies.
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It
is the mission of Tria Gallery to exhibit a balance of established artists
with
impressive resumes and exciting young talent, showing representational
and
abstract work, painting, sculpture, mixed media and installations. The
common denominator is that the
Tria
artist has a unique, authentic voice and a compelling body of work which
the
directors feel should be given an
audience.
Tria
is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am to
6
pm,
or by appointment. Interior Perspectives
opens
June 3 and remains on exhibition through July
2,
2010. For more information, please visit www.triagallerynyc.com.
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Captions:
Sandra Burns / Untitled/ chromogenic print / 2009 / various sizes, in editions
of 5
Tricia Wright / Home-Inside Looking Out / 2008 / acrylic
on
canvas / 38 x 78"
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