Artists' panel discussion with curator: Sunday, June 22, 2pm Multimedia artists explore issues of security, social intolerance and war,politics and the state of the world in a post 911 time. Curated by Raleigh Ceasar, artists include Frances Heinrich, Hernando Rico Sanchez, and Mary Tasillo. Frances Heinrich works with objects and materials that constantly reference their cultural meaning. The body of work focuses on issues of global, national and personal security. Content includes personal mortality, a compromised environment, altered clothing, and an impotent color-coded tv terror alert system. Each work of art uses a wide variety of materials and techniques that includes traditional drawing and painting, life casting and assemblage of electronic and found objects. As an installation artist, independent curator, and art lecturer Heinrich has exhibited extensively with recent exhibitions at the Newark Museum, Trenton City Museum and New Century Artists Gallery in NYC. Hernando Rico-Sanchez works focus on social injustices that can be seen not only in his native Columbia but that is shared through out the world. Through the use of colors, deconstruction of the human form, and found objects Sanchez’s compositions evokes social bleeding, endless conflict and a society that has been ravaged by social intolerance. While each work of art produces a realistic voice for the people of Columbia in visual connotation, they also reproduces feelings of unbalance and conflict in our everyday lives. Hernando has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally including Argentina, Spain, Greece, Columbia, and the US. Mary Tasillo works of art investigate the state of the world, the current socio-political climate and the ways in which people react or fail to react. These questions arise from the continual onslaught of stimuli that is the fabric of daily urban and global living. They may address gender expectations, romantic interactions, world news, politics, or the detritus of a city existence. By telling a story, Tasillo encourages the viewer to question his or her own behavior and assumptions. Tassillo’s work is in several private collections and has exhibited extensively throughout the US. |
