MEDIA ALERT:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
FOLKLORE: BENJAMIN HOLLINGSWORTH &
TIMOTHYPAKRON
Exhibition at Rebekah
Jacob
Gallery
On Thursday, Sept 30
(5:30-8:30PM), Charleston artists Timothy Pakron and Benjamin Hollingsworth
will open “FOLKLORE” an exhibition of
their latest work. "Folklore" is a creative process to express
the past through various mediums. Exhibiting for the first time together,
the artists translate personal stories, songs, family memories, and religious
beliefs into progressive 2d and 3d art forms. Pakron and Hollingsworth attempt
to explore interrelationships of family and culture, while also discovering
their personal journey as
artists.
The artists mine an
extraordinary range of possibilities as the work is based on their personal
family experiences, oral tales, and religious beliefs.
Hollingsworth’s multi-media works of frenetic pencil
lines, spray paint and stencils focus on the “folklore” of religious
iconography. Small colorful and textured works on paper in shadow boxes become
“relics” that linearly mount the wall with as much precision-and
varied interpretation- as the Stations of the Cross.
Pakron’s recent works were created during his
journey home to Mississippi summer 2010. The black and white photos focus on
nonrepresentational, non-vanity portraits of close friends and family members
who tell the “folklore” of his South. Using the familiarity of
the face as a template, his process involves hand painting the developer in the
darkroom intentionally revealing certain parts of the negative. From abstract
panels to black and white photography, Hollingsworth and Pakron work to discover
the basis of our common humanity, the imperatives of our human existence that
puts folklore study at the very center of humanistic
study.
Rebekah Jacob responds:
“These two artists are significant in spearheading the contemporary art
movement in Charleston. At 169 King St, a white cube will be translated
into a dynamic space. The monumental installation will evocate that young,
innovative talent is working here. We are at a critical point for moving
the Charleston art scene into a more progressive phase , and I am excited to
have both artists on board to launch our fall program.”
Rebekah Jacob Gallery’s
principal focus is the representation of an international group of contemporary
artists whose diverse practices include painting, sculpture, works on paper,
photography and video. The gallery adheres to a rigorous curatorial model and
maintains an accelerated exhibition schedule, non-media specific, that features
emerging contemporary artists, as well as artists from all
generations.
For details from Rebekah
Jacob Gallery, please contact:
Tel. +1 843 937 9222, rjacob@rebekahjacobgallery.com
169-B King Street,
Charleston SC
29401
www.rebekahjacobgallery.com
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