Light & Graphite 


A lantern in the hand on a dark winter night


December 11  –  January 8, 2022
With special vatican installation by Dain Susman

Light is how we see, how we navigate. Like bats echo locating, we orient ourselves by flashing our lights off trees; like moths we are inexorably drawn to luminous objects in the dark. For this year’s season of lights, studio e explores a range of artistic approaches to finding our way in the world. An invitational of sorts, A Lantern in the Hand has works at times intimate, at times abstract, and at times cosmic in scale. All throughout are present the hallmarks of the human hand which shapes and defines the maps we orient our way.

Drawing by definition is handwork, building worlds out of light and shadow. Sometimes the hand itself is the point: Maya Strauss reminds us that sometimes the shadows we jump at are creations of our own making. Sometimes it is the hidden action behind the work apparent in the final product: Chris Rollins’s balled up candy wrappers hover between the after-trace of desire and celestial bodies hovering in a solar system of unimaginable scale. Animation can be a form of puppetry (Christian French), embroidery a of weaving of narrative (Stewart Easton), deconstruction a form of world-building (Ko Kirk Yamahira). Sometimes it is as simple as moving small things across a piece of cyanotype paper as it gets exposed (Cat Clifford). Sometimes it is as simple as layering discarded packaging (Gillian Theobald). Sometimes as complicated as Dandylion seeds, Queen Anne’s lace, found folded fabric and acrylic on wood forming a sculpture that is as much journey as it is nod to organic form (Colleen Bratton).

Light itself is not merely the absence of shadow, of course. Color can shape how we see as much as contrast, and brings it’s own meanings. From the neon auras of Timothy Siciliano to abstract studies for larger works by Brian Sanchez, color’s very vibration has a way of showing us where we are in the moment. It is the yellow light of Sarah Norsworthy’s headlamp in a dark forest, the washed out sky of Molly Magai.

There’s more of course, but we’ll leave it to you to make your way down here and see for yourself.

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ARTISTS:
Julie Alexander | Magda Baker | Brian Beck | Coleen RJC Bratton | Daniel Carrillo | Eric Day Chamberlain | Cat Clifford | Emily Counts | Brian Cypher | Sara Ann Davidson | Michael Doyle | Warren Dykeman | Stewart Easton | Elise Ferguson | Christian French | Janet Galore | Colleen Hayward | Laura Hart Newlon | Damien Hoar de Galvan | Philippe Hyojung Kim | David Kearns | Ken Kelly | Kathryn Lynch | Josh McDonald | Molly Magai | Michael Milano | Sarah Norsworthy | Chris Rollins | Brian Sanchez | Juliet Shen | Timothy Siciliano | Maya Strauss | Rafael Soldi | Emily Tanner-Mclean | Whiting Tennis | Gillian Theobald | Heather Wilcoxon | Ko Kirk Yamahira | Robert Yoder | Claude Zervas


From left to right: Whiting Tennis, Ken Kelly, Magda Baker, Sara Ann Davidson, Emily Counts, Timothy Siciliano, Philippe Hyojung Kim, David E Kearns, Emily Counts, Gillian Theobald Emily Tanner-Mclean, ghost flag, 2020, Voile fabric, 5 x 8 feet, $480

Light & Graphite, photos James Arzente


Individual works: 
Rafael Soldi, The sun will set in the same place, 2016 Archival Pigment Print with Velvet Coating 44 x 55” Edition of 3 +1 AP $5,000 framed Daniel Carrillo, SHO Melotte 15, 2021, Archival pigment print, 40 x 30 in. (Courtesy of G. Gibson Gallery) $3,000 framed Maya Strauss, Talking to Shadows, 2021, Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in. $1,200 Chris Rollins, Blue Wrapper, 2020, Archival print on etching rag, 18 X 18 in. $900 (framed) Colleen Hayward, Fathom 3, 24 x 30 in. $1,500 Kathryn lynch, QM2 out the Window, 2018, Oil on board, 14 x 14 in. $3,400 Michael Milano, stack of twills, 2018, Stitch-resist cyanotype, 22 x 25 in. $1,300 Josh McDonald, Canary, 2021 (Sold) Colleen RJC Bratton, In the Garden of the Beholder, 2021, Found cast Queen Anne's lace, dandelion seeds, found fabric, acrylic on wood, 22 x 36 x 4 in. $2,300 Laura Hart Newlon, Sun Spot, 2015, Archival pigment print, $1,650 (framed) Elise Ferguson, Dusk, 2021, Pigmented plaster on panel, 21 x 19 in. (framed) $3,000 Eric Day Chamberlain, Studio, 2021, Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. Michael Doyle, Mystic Mirror, 2021, (Sold) Damien Hoar de Galvan, master of none, 2021, Wood and paint, 19 x 15 x 3.5 in. $2,000 Stewart Easton, Mystic Mountain, 2020 Julie Alexander, Small Painting Sculpture #5, 2021, acrylic on silk, string, and stick, 21 x 15.25 x 6 in. $500 Gillian Theobald, 10-31-2021, Found packaging, acrylic, glue, 10 x 14 x 1 in. Sarah Norsworthy, Campsite at Bowman Bay, 2021, Oil on panel, 38.8 x 30 in. $3,800 Molly Magai, Foggy Bridge, 2013, Oil on panel, 12 x 12 in, $825 Heather Wilcoxon Whiting Tennis, Sand Castle, 2021, cardboard and white sand on board, 18 x 14 in, $1,600 (Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery) Janet Galore, Wunder Hof: Lux Aeterna, 2021, Mixed media, 7 x 4.25 x 3.75 in. $550 Top left to bottom right: Brian Beck, Sarah Norsworthy, Molly Magai, Heather Wilcoxon, Cat Clifford Ko Kirk Yamahira, Untitled, 2021, Acrylic, graphite, partially unwoven canvas, H41 x W41 in. as shown (dimensions variable) $5,000 Juliet Shen, Forest Aperture, 2021, Ink on pale green Kitakata paper, Unframed dims 20 x 17 in., Framed dimensions 24.5 x 21 in. $1,100 Robert Yoder, Untitled, 2021, acrylic paint pen and graphite on cotton towel on panel, 11 x 14 in. Courtesy of Platform Gallery (sold) Claude Zervas, Lake Anne, 2013 - rebuilt 2021, 20 x 20 in, CCFL lamps, custom wire, electronics, (courtesy of Greg Kucera gallery) $2,000 Whiting Tennis, Untitled Construction, 2021, China marker on sandpaper, 15 x 12 in. (Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery) $1,400 Christian French, The Love of the Sea for a Drowning Man, 2021, Charcoal, 22 x 30 in. $950 (framed) Timothy Siciliano, 2021, Acrylic Kremer pigment spray paint on paper, 24 x 30 in. $1,850 Philippe Hyojung Kim, (Un)Earthly Delights: 🦄🌤🍒🧊🍬💿🥭, 2021, Urethane cast on acrylic, 11.5 x 11.5 x 3 in. $1,250 Emily Counts, Meadow Hole Compostion, 2021, Glazed stoneware, acrylic sheet, 9.5 x 9.5 x .75 in. (Sold) Emily Counts, Connected Flowing Multi Vessels, 2021, Glazed stoneware, 7.5 x 15 x 4 in. (Sold) Sara Ann Davidson, Bundle (gold), 2018, Mixed media on Bristol, 9 x 12 in. $600 Ken Kelly, Untitled, 2020, Oil on panel, 8 x 10 in. $800 Magda Baker, Small Devil Holding Scissors, 2021, Collagraph, monotype, stamp, watercolor, colored pencil, collage, 13.5 x 8 in. (image size) $380 (framed)