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Exhibitions

SOLO 2014
Juror: Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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JUNE
June 5 - 29

Opening Reception
Friday, June 7
6-830 pm

Lesley Cohen:
"Visible Trace"

Lesley Cohen’s new work acknowledges our elusive past and honors our ever-changing connections with it.

Her charcoal and chalk pastel drawings enhance our experience of commonly overlooked artifacts—such as old fences, rusted metal and dried leaves—by transforming them into intuitive abstractions.

The erosions of the past become the treasures of the present.

www.lesleycohenart.com

Jemison Faust:
"The Before Part of What I Do"

In the 25 years I have worked as a Personal Organizer, I have remained intrigued by each person’s unique relationship to his or her “stuff” as well as its connection to what we all struggle with as we move through our lives.  As I dug down like an archaeologist through the layers of one client’s life, I asked her “Why is everything dated 1985?”  Her reply: “In 1985 I got cancer, my husband left and my cat died.”

During this journey through someone’s home, there is always a part of me making connections to my life as an artist and looking for ways to express visually what I see and feel in this rich and complicated world.

I see a room filled with toys where the children fight and worry over lost Barbie dolls, a room that is an exuberant pile of visually gorgeous shapes but also a depressing comment on our society’s serious over-consumption.  I see a pile of small packages lovingly wrapped but completely unidentifiable, the sculptural equivalent of neglect.

I feel the depression made manifest in a person’s layers and layers of stuff in a home that looks trapped, wrapped up, filled up, tied up.  As one client admitted: “Nothing ever really leaves this house.”

I feel the comforting quirkiness of poetry in a To Do List:
Watch salt
Heat
Lie flat no pillow
Get rid of car

So I bring back to my studio the “before” photos.  I bring back our conversations, the To Do lists, the twist ties, the solitary earring, the damaged toy, the box of computer chargers, the letters from 1870 and odd combinations of items that made sense a long time ago. From this detritus, these bits and pieces, I create two and three dimensional art works.  Each piece is either a portrait of a particular person or a portrait of some aspect of his or her life that evokes a larger issue.   Each one is informed by the memory of the journey I have taken through his or her unique life.

In this exhibition, I will be presenting 20 two dimensional collages ranging in size from 8” square to 36” x 48” as well as 10 small sculptures displayed in 12” Plexiglas cubes. 

In the spirit of giving back I am donating 5% of the money I collect from each piece to Quantum Leap, a NAPO community service program that provides organizing training to people who are welfare-vulnerable or in a welfare-to-work transition.

www.jemisonfaust.com

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