RIPPLE EFFECT

Exhibition: Ripple Effect

ArtPort Kingston, Kingston NY
The Cornell Steam Boat Building
Opens June 27, 2020 

Ripple Effect is a group exhibition curated and organized by Laurie De Chiara,
director of ArtPort Kingston.  The exhibition is part of an evolving series
of topical conversations and installations within the cultural landscape of today's Covid world.
"The Ripple Effect, passing messages and information along for more people to experience. In our current times of unknown and unrest, perhaps the power of art can provide alternative perspectives.  Our world has changed, thus we have created an exhibition of dialogues influx.  Changes in the exhibition will occur regularly with new artists added and different configurations of installations.  We can not be stagnant, shifts and transitions keep us from becoming complacent. Every time you return something might have changed to give a different perspective." - Laurie DeChiara

Exhibition artists: Mary Ann Strandall, Susan Jennings, Will van Roden, Dasha Bazanova, Undine Brod, Gabe Brown, Melissa Dadourian, Jeila Gueramian, Miwa Koizumi, Ann Mailey,  Ruby Palmer, Traci Talassco, Clare Torina, Christine Stiver, Julie Hedrick, Samantha Strand, Roberta Ziemba

Mary Ann Strandell, Transit Portal Installation (partial view), ArtPort Kingston

Mary Ann Strandell's installation, "Transit Portal" is part of the Ripple Effect Exhibition.  'Transit Portal" consists of a hand-painted, forty foot sumi-brush wash drawing with twelve 3d lenticular print media, mounted throughout the large ink drawing. Strandell brings together three historical spaces: the baroque, modernism, and post-modernism. Strandell considers the multiple viewing experience to that of ones daily experience on-line;  the many search windows we navigate on our personal computers. The base drawing portrays an echo of a specific historic room designed as a formal gathering place for social connecting, and story telling- the Salon's of Europe passed.
The ink drawing of The Fragaonard Room from the Frick Museum is based on a 1940's photograph. Intrigued by the lack of internet documentation of this Period Room, as the on-line access is only a virtual tour, Strandell activates issues of time, the hand drawn, and the mediated experience of now.
The array of lenticular media vary in their picto-graphic and algorithmic references.  The three dominant lenticular works have a central image of the 1970's "conversation-pit", the retro sunken couch; hand-painted in oil, and transferred to lenticular. Within the lenticular media float imagery from pop culture including kitsch elements, design decor, auction-house items, spudnik lamps, California pools, and more. Other lenticular works depict moving images of birds, ancient vases, and the odd references to porcelain objects, along with the ghosts of Hokusai woodcuts. "Transit Portal" installation is a mediated chamber of time-travel.

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