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Press Release #15 |
November 2006 |
NEW HOPE SIDETRACKS ART GALLERY
2A STOCKTON AVENUE
NEW HOPE, PA 18938
215 862 4586
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Some Assembly Required:
artworks by local artists,
Yvonne Love
& Marc Deasy
with The Tape Drawings by M.P. Landis
November 25, 2006 through January 15, 2007
Artist Reception
Saturday, December 2, 2006, 6-9 PM
New Hope Sidetracks Art Gallery is pleased to present our holiday show, Some Assembly Required, featuring assemblages by the Chalfont sculptor and installation artist Yvonne Love (bio), coupled with the first major gallery show of collages by Marc Deasy (bio) of Doylestown. In addition, The Tape Drawings of Gallery artist M. P. Landis (bio) will have their first showing.
A Meet the Artists Reception for Yvonne Love and for Marc Deasy will take place Saturday evening, December 2, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.
Yvonne Love’s finely detailed three-dimensional works speak of personal narrative—images of home or of clothing. Each artwork captures a precious moment, house shapes and clothing patterns becoming vessels for unfolding memories. The images range from needles and pins to wire hangers to houses—images that can mend or hang or hold, but can equally be used to pierce, pinch or confine.
Such ambiguity runs throughout her works, assembled as they are from broken eggshells, pilled cottonballs, wool tufts and fragments of butterfly wings. Resin, clay, glue, wire and pins are the ties that bind, pulling the narratives together, even intensifying them by the varying ways these natural elements are re-combined.
In many works, there is the noticeable presence of plastic “slip covers” either to protect or to suffocate—or both. The narrative changes depending upon interpretation—first of the artist, then of the viewer.
Yvonne Love together with her husband, painter and teacher David Love, has long been a part of the New Hope and Bucks County art scene. For over 10 years, the two founded and ran Ravens Run Arts, a visual and performing arts school for young people aged 2 to 18. Yvonne was also president, creative director and co-founder of Artists in Residence, developing programs and placing artists in the New Hope-Solebury, Delaware Township, Central Bucks and Council Rock School Districts. A summa-cum-laude graduate of the University of Florida, she earned a Master in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught at institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania, the University of the Arts, Bucks County Community College, and presently at Penn State Abington.
Recent local exhibitions have included the New Hope Sculpture Exhibition sponsored by New Hope Arts, Inc.; River Run Gallery in Lambertville NJ; the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, aSFe Gallery in Philadelphia, the Contemporary Arts Council of Princeton, NJ; and Germantown Academy Art Gallery—in a joint show with her husband.
Yvonne is presently at work on a major room-size installation for a 2007 exhibition in the Philadelphia area. The installation will continue her distillation of personal memory, family and heritage into an art experience speaking to the lives and memories of all who seek meaning and healing.
Marc Deasy comes to assemblage from a different direction—breathing life into the discarded cardboard box. The box once held wine. Deconstructed into fragments, it holds possibilities open. Reconstructed into collage, it makes statements, spoofs events, strikes emotional chords.
Spontaneity plays its place—the choice of box, the geometric shards of cardboard, the resulting image. But the world of events intrudes and shapes the results. War, greed, lust, power—all these bring out the passionate artist in Marc Deasy. Current event, historical analogy, personal memory and life experience are all blended, as the pieces are assembled into a new whole.
Collage titles such as Hitting It Big, Don’t Question Just Do, Drunk Pelican, Overfishing, Lies Do Matter, and Picking Up Shells demonstrate Marc’s way with words that are both colloquial and topical. Paint, tape, plastic and found materials are used judiciously to accent the printed cardboard pieces of several of the works. At Sidetracks, the collages will be offered for purchase both framed and unframed.
Marc Deasy, together with his wife, artist Betty Jacobsen, is a resident of Doylestown, PA. Marc has created artworks in various media over the years—in oil pastel, ceramic and photography. Recent work has been larger in scale than his collages, and more social and political in expression.
He has shown at the Tinicum Arts Festival, ShadFest in Lambertville NJ, and in various group shows. In 2005 he curated and was included in a 6-person show entitled The Nature of Happiness at the New York Law School. His oil pastel on paper, Junk Mail, was in the juried works-on-paper show of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Another work in the same medium, Glacial Movement, was selected for The Plastic Club’s small works exhibit. And the Eljira Center of Community Art chose his 2005 political art statement, America Down Under, for inclusion in the Hunterdon Museum of Art’s juried members’ exhibit.
Betty Jacobsen, Marc’s wife, will be part of the subsequent exhibit at New Hope Sidetracks, entitled Menage à Tree, which opens in February 2007. The art of Elizabeth Miller McCue of Yardley, PA, and of Leah K. Tomaino of Randolph, NJ will also be featured.
M. P. Landis, a native of Landisville near Lancaster, PA, and now a resident of Brooklyn NY, returns as a featured artist to Sidetracks Gallery after his showing at the Gallery’s inaugural exhibition in November and December of 2005. The Gallery will also have on view a selection of work by other Gallery artists Jane Henry, Rachel Friedberg, Norma Holt, Paul Bowen, Irén Handschuh, New Hope’s own Jack Rosen, and Selina Trieff.
New Hope Sidetracks Art Gallery is located in the New Hope Arts Center, 2A Stockton Avenue, at the intersection of Bridge Street and the New Hope-Ivyland Railroad, neighboring El Taco Loco Restaurant.
Regular Gallery hours:
Sunday, Monday & Thursday 11AM - 6PM,
Friday & Saturday 11AM - 7PM.
Closed Tuesday & Wednesday.
215 862 4586
www.nhsidetracks.com
newhopesidetracks@comcast.net
