1708 Gallery

1708 Gallery invites emerging and professional artists, national and international, working in all media and disciplines to submit proposals for InLight Richmond, the second annual exhibition of contemporary public art inspired by light. Preferences will be given to proposals that involve, investigate, interpret, or are inspired by light, either as a medium or as an abstract idea. Existing work, as well as proposals for new projects will be considered. The work will be selected by guest juror Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Awards include $1500 Best in Show; $1500 Best in Green; $500 People’s Choice Award. Deadline is March 31, 2009. Entry fee is $30.

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Josh Bonnett
“In today’s technological and media saturated world images and information are mediated through multiple filters and are eventually presented as some kind of truth or fact of reality. This idea of mediation and the process of abstraction, both in terms of what the mediated image is and what abstraction in art can, or historically functions as are the major investigations of my work. “

Josh Bonnett is an MFA candidate in painting at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts. He was nominated by his department to be a part of the fourth annual 1708 Gallery Graduate Artist Forum.

“I’m interested in the relationship between memory, experience, and the individual perspective. By recalling remembered events from my life I communicate to the viewer my interpretation of those events through the use of abstracted visual and aural imagery. The events range from the everyday mundane, to the profoundly traumatic. My motivation is to begin a dialogue between myself and the viewer over how we communicate in memory, how we remember past events, and the importance this has to our own individual histories.“
-John Hendershot
email: john@jhendershot.com

Images above are stills from John Hendershot’s videos. He is an MFA candidate at VCU Photo and was nominated to be a part of 1708 Gallery’s Fourth Annual Graduate Artist Forum.

Lynda Ray
Whitewash, 11.3 x 9″, encaustic

When you are up in NYC, stop in at the NYU Small Work show to see 1708 Gallery board member Lynda Ray’s work…

“”Flok” is a 16mm short film about two brothers that travel around their town collecting dead birds in hopes to make they fly again. Meanwhile, a woman tries to get away while Jesus rides along. I am currently working on an experimental narrative film about a father and a son who deal with loss by creating their own personal history. They take a trip to Lumberton, North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains to claim their ancestry.“

Andrew Mausert-Mooney is a post-baccalaureate art student making video art at University of Virginia. He was nominated by his department to be a part of 1708 Gallery’s Fourth Annual Graduate Artist Forum.
Email: am8jq@virginia.edu

“Pulling themselves through openings, rattling and scurrying in the walls. When I don’t see them I know they are there. I spray the premises with poison with no regret and to no avail. Nothing stops them from coming in or makes them leave. When one is seen I become furious, at thirty I begin to imagine hundreds, maybe thousands.”

Titles:
Untitled 1-4 from The Stain Series
Light Jet Print – 24 x 24 2008

Stephanie Benassi is a VCU Arts Photography MFA candidate, nominated by her department to be a part of 1708 Gallery’s Fourth Annual Graduate Artist Forum.


Romance.
Romance novel pages, gel medium. 17″ x 20.” 2008.

Aaron McIntosh is a VCU MFA candidate in the Department of Craft and Material Studies, nominated by his department to be a part of 1708 Gallery’s Fourth Annual Graduate Artist Forum.

Golnar Adili:
“This piece was born out of two previous interests of mine; the airplane as a vessel which separates the sensuous body from the void of the sky. The technical aspect of cutting and re-organizing different images was born out of my research fellowship to study the contrast between inside and outside spaces of Tehran due to the Islamic Republic’s totalitarian control over the public lives of its citizens. To juxtapose inside and outside in one image, I cut images of inside and outside of windows and intermixed them to see the different spaces at once. These studies led to the Time collages presented. Here I fragmented consecutively taken photographs, and played with the density and expression of time in remounting the pixels on a grid. The result is of a slowly changing sky-scape through the airplane window documenting 12 seconds time at once. In other words, The final collage is a raster image of four minutely different photos intermixed homogeneously. In these collages, I’m interested in conveying a quiet sense of suspense, and a static explosion of time.“

Golnar Adili is a fifth year post-baccalaureate art student at University of Virginia. She was nominated by her department to be a part of 1708 Gallery’s Fourth Annual Graduate Artist Forum.

Andrea C. Donnelly
“Typically I work in the format of large-scale weavings, using both the transparency and physicality of thread layered within image to create a quiet yet unavoidable body/spirit presence in space. The Forum Show has given me the opportunity to explore the elements I engage in my fiber work, specifically layering, line, and positive/negative space, on a different scale. The Systems Meditation Series is an intimate study of the intersections of natural and man-made pattern and disruption of pattern. Bricks and roots, library shelves, skin cells…these systems are reorganized, distilled into careful and curious white-on-black line drawings.”

Andrea Donnelly is a VCU Craft and Material Studies MFA candidate, nominated by her department to be a part of 1708 Gallery’s Fourth Annual Graduate Artist Forum.

Below: Quietly, Quietly
Size: 87″ x 47″
Medium: Handwoven cotton, pigment-painted warp

Below: Systems Meditation 1
Size: 5” x 7”
Medium: scratch board

Installation photographs of “Crossing the Pacific”.

Hiromi Takizawa is an MFA candidate in VCU Arts Craft and Material Studies Department. She works primarily in glass and installation art and was nominated for inclusion in 1708 Gallery’s Fourth Annual Graduate Artist Forum.