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Group Show: Gallery I and II
Fellowship Winner: Celeste Rapone
November 26 - December 20, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, December 4, 6-8 PM


Group Show: Gallery I and II

HOPE CARTER, DOROTHY DEON, POLLY KURASCH,
GUNA S. MUNDHEIM, HELENE HEEHYOUN CHUNG, CHUNG SHIL SHIM


HOPE CARTER

Transformation, Mixed Media
Everything has a voice if it is carefully attended to.

DOROTHY DEON

Light & Life, Mixed Media
My paintings illuminate a space as the stars shed light onto dark space, as if spreading confetti from a skyscraper, I sprinkle light in all directions.

GUNA S. MUNDHEIM

PODS FLOATING, Watercolor, 22" x 30"
This series of work focuses on transitional states of organic forms, their changeability and the passage of time.

HELENE HEEHYON CHUNG

Autumn Field, #1, Oil/Canvas
As I walk along the canal path, I am deeply moved and inspired by the season's gift with fertile earth.

POLLY KURASCH

HORSE INSTALLATION, Polymer Clay, Steel Base
As an artist and sculptor working in mixed media, my process involves taking a personal image, transforming it by degrees and putting it in a metaphorical space. What draws me to the recurring theme of "horse"? Something in those ponies of the carousel have always haunted me. "My horse left its pole upshot, cloud by cloud quick as a bullet in a dream to a trumpet, skyborn." -- Joseph Mailander from Santa Monica Carousel

CHUNG SHIL SHIM

Cookie Basket, Oil/Canvas, 14" x 18"
Simple things catch my eye. Standing still on the table or shelf, they bring me my childhood memories.

Fellowship Winner: Celeste Rapone

"VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL"

Host, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 36" x 40"

INSTANT GRATIFICATION: I'm interested in superficial and product-oriented interference in the natural phases of life, as it pertains to childhood encounters with religion and sex. As a girl raised Catholic, I became accustomed to attractive versions of unattractive ideas in vessels that appealed to me at a young age. Storytelling formulas and strategies are used by parents to make certain complexities, such as Catholicism and sex, appear more final and less questionable.

At 23, I'm beginning to dissect those issues that were once deemed absolute. My paintings are adult responses to the formulas I was fed as a child; they're about realizing that the notion of the unobtainable being attainable is indeed false. My body of work challenges the Catholic church's myth of accessibility by acknowledging the impossibility of mimicking an ideal Catholic figure, and by exploring a more personal and organic mode of power and sensuality: sex and the female form. Celeste Rapone was raised in Wayne, NJ and attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received her B.F.A. degree in 2007. Ms. Rapone is the winner of the 2008 Phoenix Gallery Fellowship Program at the Phoenix Gallery.