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January 31, 2010
Gina Phillips "Heroes and Villains" and Matthew Cox "Reconstitute, Refresh,
Embellish" at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery New
Orleans
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Gina Phillips "Heroes and Villains"
New Fabric Works
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
January 28, 2011 (New Orleans, LA)
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to present Heroes and
Villains, new fabric works by Gina Phillips in her first solo
exhibition with the gallery. Heroes and Villains exhibition runs from
February 3rd through March 9, 2011, 2010 with an opening reception to meet the
artist on Saturday February 5th from 6 to 9 pm.
Heroes and Villains is a continuation of the visual narrative
Phillips began with her 2010 solo show, The
Call of The Alluvial Empire, at the Isaac Delgado Fine Art Gallery at
Delgdo College. Using a variety of media including fabric, thread, ink, paint,
synthetic hair, glass beads, and feathers, Gina Phillips has created a
story-telling installation that explores elements of innocence and brutality in
primitive American culture in the Southern
Delta.
In her own
words:
"Ultimately, Heroes and Villains is about dualism the great complement of
benevolent and malignant forces. It's also about: opportunism, Schadenfreud,
othering, betrayal, westward expansion, the triumph of nature over human folly,
making lemonade out of lemons, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!, picking up the
pieces
a grand scheme, a master plan, attraction/repulsion, domination/vulnerability,
mortality,
sex
I have to give credit to three sources of inspiration for this body of work:
Theodorus de Bry was a 16th century, Belgian engraver who published several
books illustrating the New World. His depictions of Native Americas were not
based on firsthand observation. He relied on the descriptions and sketches of
various explorers to create a fabricated vision of the Americas. Heroes and
Villains is the name of one of the songs co-written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke
Parks on The Beach Boys album, Smile. Smile is a surf-rock opera about the
significance of westward expansion in the formation of American identity. And,
Richard Campanella's work, especially Time and Place in New Orleans: Past
Geographies in the Present Day, describing the confluence of geography and human
occupation in Southeast Louisiana, continues to fuel my
imagination."
About the
Artist
Gina Phillips has a BFA from University of Kentucky and an MFA from Tulane
University. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the
country and her work is in numerous collections including University of
Kentucky, Lexington, NASA, New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern
Art, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Tulane University and House of Blues
(various locations across US.)
To preview selected works from Heroes and Villains, by Gina Phillips
please
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Pictured:
Gina
Phillips
Puppy, 21" x
19",
Chief Jumper and His Horse, 21" x
32",
Big Stick Diplomacy, 19" x
29",
Heroes and VIllains, 19" x
19"
All works are fabric, thread, ink, paint and beads
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Matthew Cox "Reconstitute, Refresh,
Embellish"
New Embroidered X-Rays
ALSO ON
EXHIBIT
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to announce Reconstitute,
Refresh, Embellish new embroidered X-Rays by Matthew Cox will be
on exhibit in the middle gallery from Feb 4- March 3, 2011 with an opening
reception on Saturday, February 5th from
6-9pm.
Matthew Cox is a multi-media artist who is never afraid to experiment with
materials. His works can vary from Currin-esque oil paintings on canvas to
rubber stamp portraits to illustrations to assemblages and embroidered X-Rays.
His intricately embroidered X-Rays breathe life into an unusual creative
material creating new narratives for these seemingly discarded yet, at one time,
valuable medical
necessities.
Of his new body of work Cox
says:
Redefinition motivates me to create my embroidered x-rays. The stark clash of
two such divergent materials, cloth and medical film, is the simple catalyst.
One tactile and labor-intensive, the other technical, and quickly a finished
product. There's a wide historical context, one ancient, decorative, and
artisanal, the other contemporary and devoid of aesthetic intention. By simply
placing one of these materials on top of the other the understood purpose of
each is redefined.
For me, stitching has a nurturing aspect and acts as care giving or healing to
the injured, a traditionally feminine sort of action, while the x-ray itself can
be considered masculine and unemotional. Additionally, these pieces engage my
own recognition of what is beautiful [these separately became appealing to me at
about the same time]. As an artist who takes on tedious, labor-intensive
projects, I am also reacting to the ever-increasing presence of photography in
contemporary art - by introducing the process of labor over the quick, slickness
of
film.
Redefinition of the intention of materials has increasingly become the common
ground between the different objects that I make.
Cox was educated at Parsons School of Design in New York and Los Angeles. His
work has been exhibited nationally in Chicago, New York, Miami, California,
Tennessee and New Orleans. His work is in the permanent collection of the New
Orleans Museum of Art and the Georgetown College Art Gallery. He was awarded a
Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in 2003 and the prestigious Pew
Charitable Trusts Fellowship in the Arts (painting) in 2008. He has lived in New
Orleans periodically over the last twenty years and currently lives and works in
Philadelphia.
To preview selected works from Reconstitute, Refresh,
Embellish by Matthew Cox, please
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Pictured:
Matthew
Cox
Necklace with
Bouquet
Embroidered X-Ray
14 x 15.25
in.
For more information and images on both exhibitions, please contact Jonathan
Ferrara Gallery at 504.522.5471 or info@jonathanferraragallery.com
About Jonathan Ferrara
Gallery
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is a collective environment of creative visions; a
commercial gallery with a public conscience. Artist, activist, and entrepreneur
Jonathan Ferrara opened the gallery in 1998 to give artists a greater voice.
Since its inception, the gallery has focused on cutting edge works by local,
national and international artists with a sense of purpose, mission, and
message. The gallery has monthly exhibitions and participates in art fairs in
New York and Miami.
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Monday - Saturday 11 am to
5pm
Jonathan Ferrara
Gallery
400a Julia
Street
New Orleans, LA
70130
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