Piece Work
THE SILBER ART GALLERY Sanford J. Ungar Athenaeum | Goucher College
Piece Work FEATURING WORK BY: Rachel Hayes Cordy Ryman Dominic Terlizzi Christine Buckton Tillman Sun You
Piece Work is a group exhibition featuring five artists who assemble significant paintings, sculptures, and installations from an accumulation of smaller parts. Incorporated into larger works and presented without hierarchy, the works in Piece Work are feats of modularity, repetition, and minutiae. Like a quilt sourced from the fabric of different origins and sentimentality, the final form democratizes, preserves, and transcends. Cordy Ryman presents meticulously stacked wall sculptures made up of smaller, painted wood blocks, often cannibalized from past site-specific installations. Dominic Terlizzi’s elaborate paintings reveal a multitude of cast objects and sculptural practices at work on the surface of his images. Rachel Hayes is well known for her gossamer fabric pieces that function as painting, sculpture, and transformative installation. Her concentric geometries contain panels of varying opacity, catching the light and incorporating the space seen through the work. Sun You’s works are made up of a lexicon of smaller, concise abstract forms, and like Terlizzi, blur the boundary between painting and sculpture within the rectangle. Christine Buckton Tillman uses color to obscure and unify the array of natural objects that make up her sculpture. Tillman arranges these forms as specimens, examining collection and intervention as methods of making. Referencing both textile craft and industrial production, Piece Work encourages viewers to consider the exhibited artworks both for their entirety and the intricacies of their parts.
Untitled Organza and Nylon 15’ x 12’ 2017
Rachel Hayes
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Rachel Hayes is an artist trained in traditional fiber and painting techniques who lives and works in Oklahoma. She received her bachelor of fine arts in fiber from the Kansas City Art Institute and went on to earn a master of fine arts in painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has attended the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program in Brooklyn, New York; the Sculpture Space Residency in New York; and the Art Omi International Artists’ Residency in Omi, New York.
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Untitled Organza and Nylon 15’ x 12’ 2017
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Hayes is a 2016 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Award in Painting and Sculpture, an Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship in Sculpture, a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship in Sculpture, a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, and a Charlotte Street Fund Award.
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Cordy Ryman Cordy Ryman (b. 1971, New York City) received his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, in New York, in 1997. Most recently, his work was the subject of a yearlong solo exhibition, curated by Thomas Micchelli, at Tower 49 Gallery, New York, NY. Earlier this year, Cordy Ryman: This is this, And that is that, was on view at Konrad Fischer Galerie in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Red Wall acrylic and enamel on wood overall: 700 blocks 182” x 189” x 1.5” (dimensions variable) 2009
JoDeck Mountain acrylic, enamel, and shellac on wood Left: 116” x 118” x 2.5” Right: 116” x 109” x 2.5” 2013
Ryman’s work has been exhibited at Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; The Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY; Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Esbjerg Museum of Modern Art, Esbjerg, Denmark; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; University of Springfield Illinois Galleries, Springfield, IL; and Visual Arts Center, New Jersey, NJ.
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Peacable acrylic on canvas 7’ x 5’ 2015
Dominic Terlizzi Dominic Terlizzi lives and works between Brooklyn and Baltimore. Recent exhibitions include A Minimal Relief at NEVVEN Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden, and A Spirit Knows A Shadow Shows at Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California. His work has been exhibited in Baltimore, NYC, LA, Philadelphia, Washington, Delaware, Sweden, London, and Mars. He is the director of St. Charles Projects in Baltimore, MD. He has completed two monumental public sculptures for the City of Baltimore. He received the Maryland Artist Equity Grant, Hoffberger School of Painting Award, Triangle Workshop Fellowship, PNC Transformative Art Project Grant, and Belle Foundation Grant. He has lectured in Cebu City, Philippines; Seoul, South Korea; Incheon, South Korea; Jeju Island, South Korea; Hangzhou, China; Shanghai, China; Fuzhou, China; and Beijing, China. He received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union in NYC and an M.F.A. from Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA. He has taught at MICA, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Towson University, and PI Art NYC.
Globes acrylic on canvas 8’ x 10’ 2015
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Christine Buckton Tillman Christine Buckton Tillman hails from the great Northern Chicago suburb of Libertyville, IL—home of the Wildcats. Buckton is her maiden name, but she made it her middle name because she takes her grandmother’s advice. She acquired the last name of Tillman when she married a nice boy from Maryland who she met in year four of her seven-year stint as an Iowan. She earned her B.A. at Coe College in Cedar Rapids and received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Christine is primarily a very flat sculptor who draws more often than she makes sculptures, a wannabe naturalist who hates camping and has planned multiple proms as an adult. Her main interests as an artist lie in ideas surrounding the handmade, celebrations, and human-made interpretations of natural forms. Christine is a member of the Drawing Center Viewing Program and received a 2010 Maryland State Arts Council Grant for her Works on Paper.
Natural Color acrylic and assorted natural objects 72” x 32” 2018 8
Kaleidoscope Party Gouache on paper 24” x 18” 2018
Untitled mixed media 36” x 24” x 1” 2018
Sun You Sun You is a Seoul-born, New York-based artist. You has exhibited her work in galleries and museums internationally. Exhibition venues include the Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond; the Queens Museum in New York; the Korean Cultural Center in New York, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems; Seoul Arts Center in Korea; the Suburban in Chicago; and at the Pit in Glendale, CA. You is currently an artist in residence at Sharpe Walentas Studio Program and Hunter College.
Untitled mixed Media 30” x 24” x 2” 2018
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Piece Work FEATURING WORK BY: Rachel Hayes Cordy Ryman Dominic Terlizzi Christine Buckton Tillman Sun You
November 5 - December 21, 2018 OPENING RECEPTION:
Tuesday, November 13 6-9 p.m.
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The Silber Gallery program is funded with the assistance of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences.