Artists' OPEN STUDIOS at Vytlacil - January 2014

January 25, 2-4pm

Don’t miss seeing the first Artists-In-Residence of the new year at Vyt. Savor some wine, cheese, and warm conversation about art with the League's artists at Vyt. FREE and open to the public.

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Charmaine Ortiz (Drawing), North Carolina

Charmaine works with graphite and seeks to challenge its capabilities through new fields and applications, including object making and painting. In order to expand this traditional drawing medium she makes her own graphite pencils from raw materials while also incorporating factory made graphite pencils into her work. Her current series of drawings conceptually explores the history of graphite while using geometric designs specific to her cultural identity. See more of her work at www.charmaineortiz.com.

Cameron Shojaei (Watercolor, Acrylic, Oil), Baltimore, Maryland

Cameron says, “Duchamp's introduction of his ‘fountain’ to the Art World was like the Spanish introduction of small pox to the New World. The advent of non-representational art has done for painting what the chainsaw has done for the rainforest. Thousands of years of development flattened overnight. Art is all about speed now, like the bullet that pierced Chris Burden's arm in 1971. As a young painter interested in rendering faces, hands and believable space there are times when I feel like a member of an endangered tribe. This is the correlation that draws me to the indigenous groups of Amazonia. Their legacy is in jeopardy and so is that of Rembrandt and Rubens. Slash and burn painting is clear-cutting the creativity of the next generation. The choice is ours as both artists and citizens of a hungry planet to either create or destroy. I'm from Baltimore Maryland and I don't like abstract art.” See more of his work here: http://cameronshojaei.blogspot.com/.

Frazer Salter (Sculptor), Edinburgh, Scotland

Frazer’s new work relates to the topic of human augmentation, the ethical debates it raises in culture and the further development of the relationship between sculpture and the body. See more of his work here: http://cargocollective.com/frazersalter.

Todd Stong (Painter), Providence, Rhode Island

Todd’s paintings have evolved as playfully psychedelic attempts at reconciling a visual approach to autobiography with the thoughts of Plato and Erich Auerbach on how Forms and narrative ought to be presented in literature and visual art. The work produced at The League Residency at Vyt moves beyond simply personal memoir and on to the fantastic. Todd says, "In this realm, I can incite a color-spattered battle between the organic and the geometric, liquid and solid, foreground and background, organism and robot, play and foul play. See more of his work here: www.toddstong.com.

EVENTS AT VYT

The Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery is proud to present:

Catherine Redmond: Painting on Paper and Canvas

through February 16, 2014