COMMUNITY
UNSEEN Exhibit
A for-artists/by-artists exhibition
date and location: online (due to COVID-19/Coronavirus)
featuring
Nell Breyer, March 78 (2019) — $250
Nell Breyer is an artist working at the intersection of digital media, movement, and the public domain. She enlists approaches from vision sciences, art and engineering to understand contemporary practices in participatory media and performance shaping our public spaces. Her work has been shown internationally in art institutes and urban settings. Nell was a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the Program in Art, Culture and Technology from 2002-2010. She completed her doctorate at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 2011 and has since been consulting with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, on several international initiatives involving digital media, copyright, and the public domain. She has taught at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and in RISD’s Digital + Media department. Her publications can be found in the Journal for Artistic Research (2011), Movement Research Journal (2011), and ISMAR 2010 Art, Media and Humanities (2010).
Ronald Mario Gonzalez, Pincushion Figure with Straw Hat (2019) — $1,200
Ronald Mario Gonzalez, Pincushion Figure with Jumpsuit (2019) — $1,200
Ronald Mario Gonzalez, Pincushion Figure with Hat (2019) — $1,200
Ronald Gonzalez is a contemporary figurative artist based in upstate New York. Since the mid-seventies, the artist has created elegiac sculptures and installations that are embodiments of death and loss, infused with grotesque narrative and pathos. Gonzalez works primarily in series, with steel armatures and macabre collections of time-worn objects and detritus from his surroundings. The work is then further eroded with metal filings, burned wax, glue, wire, and black soot, creating a dramatic tonal range that both obscures and reveals anthropomorphic heads, torsos, and figures that appear as charred fetishistic mementos possessing a visceral quality, imbued with a sense of primal energy and distress that permeates his work. His obsessive production of angst-ridden sculptures explore the emotive, social, and psychological associations of decaying found objects. Gonzalez’s sculpture is mournful, confrontational, and estranged, standing on the border between human personage and doomed phantom. His restless investigation of animating materials has produced an art of dissolution with archaic, apocalyptic, and quasi-alien elements that convey an animistic mode of thought as an intensely evocative expression of the human condition.
David Hannon, Paradise (2016) — $1,500
David Hannon is an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Originally from Massachusetts, he studied Painting at Syracuse University and graduated in 2008. He then moved to New York City, where he worked for the artist Mickalene Thomas and the choreographer Daria Fain. After NYC, he moved to Boston, where he worked at the AIDS Action Committee's thrift store Boomerangs. He has exhibited in Western Massachusetts; Kansas City, MI; Portland, Oregon; New York City; and Boston.
David builds site-responsive stage sets, incorporating video projections, sculpture, and live performance. He works site-responsively, where aspects of the set are determined by the space’s architecture, and the performance is based upon the resulting installation.
David’s work reimagines his childhood as a queer individual, the resurrection of a time that cannot exist again and maybe never existed. Perversions of the body, sudden changes in scale, and repetitive actions are represented in a domestic setting that are distorted throughout my installations and processes of going between digital to physical realms and performance. Building these spaces and performing in them allows David to re-inhabit a queer childhood that he feels he missed. He “re-enacts” these scenes as a way to reclaim this space.
Christy E. O’Connor, Cheese Cloth Skin Study (2020) — $375
Christy E. O’Connor is an artist, curator, and arts advocate. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she studied studio art, photography, and education. O’Connor is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work examines gender, feminism, cultural and social norms, politics, and history. O’Connor works in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, and textiles. Her work has been exhibited regionally, and is included in several private collections. O’Connor has curated for the BSB Gallery in Trenton, NJ, since 2018. Previously, she curated pop-up art exhibitions throughout the state of New Jersey, designed window displays with The Atlantic Highlands Arts Council with regional area artists (2017-2019), and worked as a special projects coordinator with the Monmouth Museum.