| Opening reception: First Friday,
May 7, 6 - 10 pm
Dead Reckoning - main gallery
Matthew Osborn was born in a small town in rural
Ohio. Osborn's work is a direct departure from his sketchbooks
that consists of his humorous everyday observation, surroundings
and moods. He creates an atmosphere of curiosity by freely associating
hand drawn images with dialog. His characters, created from various
animals, legend, folklore and everyday objects, live in a world
of possibilities and satire. This world is offset by an overwhelming
sense of morality and its inhabitants are plagued by the knowledge
that, no matter how wonderful, no matter how bleak or how evolved
things become, they will someday cease to exist.
How's My Driving
- project space
Erin Riley is a tapestry weaver from Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
She weaves cars and trucks and has a habit of taking out her camera
while driving on the highway. She loves pictures of 18-wheelers
and the occasional turned over Peterbilt or Mack truck. She uses
those photos as a blueprint and patiently threads her canvas.
She searches imagery on Google or local newspaper websites using
key words like "death semi" or "truck crash".
The hand dyed yarn is weaved on a loom until the early am with
encouragement from lots of coffee and NPR. Her work is the result
of daddy issues and figuring out the role men play in making young
women complicated.
She went to graduate school at Tyler School of art. This spring
she will be a resident at the McColl Center for Visual Arts and
then off to the Wassaic Project and Emmanuel College Residencies
this summer.
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