Where: Athen B Gallery
Event Date: April 9, 2016
Event Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location: 1525 Webster St, Oakland, Ca
Exhibit Dates: April 9 - May 6
For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1732249316996024/
A GROUP EXHIBITION BY:
BRETT FLANIGAN | HEATHER DAY | MARTINA MERLINI
OPENING RECEPTION APRIL 9 AT 7PM
SHOWING THROUGH MAY 6, 2016
BRETT FLANIGAN | Brett Flanigan was born in Great Falls, Montana and has lived in various locations around the western United States until landing in Oakland, CA in 2009. HIs science and mathematics background can be cited when acknowledging underlying themes of natural order/disorder and his obsession with and creating patterns and algorithms within his work. He strives to present the viewer with conflicting viewpoints simultaneously, embracing the contradictions. .Similar to the Oulipo movement among writers and mathematicians, Flanigan habitually devises a set of self imposed precepts relevant to each project, which are often bent of broken in a moment of clarity or carelessness. His recently has worked primarily in the realm of painting and sculpture and is also exploring an intersection of the two mediums.
HEATHER DAY | Heather Day is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Day grew up in Hawaii and along the east coast of the United States, finally moving to San Francisco after graduating from Maryland Institute College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and art history. Her background in travel and culture encouraged her to see more of the world, where she discovered a connection to nature—her main source of inspiration. Day’s art is a form of visual storytelling interested in conveying moments of interactions. She works primarily with paint and non-traditional materials, and is known for her murals. The philosophy that everything is a product of an experience frames each work, conveying stories of movement and ideas of color through seams, lines, and layers.
Statement: Heather Day travels seeking stories of all kinds—stories behind people, places, sound, and nature—and brings them home to her Oakland studio to create an interpretation. Day chooses to communicate these interpretations through layers of overlapping paint, expressing moments at every seam, edge, and line. Each mark represents her language of dynamic motion, allowing compositions to read like handwriting—from one side to another.
Working primarily with paint and non-traditional materials, her recent work is a reflection of travels in nature. Collected moments from wooded areas, agitated rivers, and panoramic views of the ocean are conveyed through washes of medium and rapid marks. Color is used as punctuation—a means to control the energy and direct the eye. Her process demands motion, requiring the entire body, not just the hand. Each painting seeks to balance the progression of growth and upkeep found in both nature and the act of painting.
MARTINA MERLINI | Martina Merlini was born in Bologna, Italy in 1986. She received a degree in Illustration from IED Milano and now lives and works in Milan. She has collaborated with and had clients such as Vice Italia, Zelle ArteContemporanea, Rivista Studio, Eli Edizioni, Diner Journal, Assab One and The Milan Review. Merlini often showcases her work in Milan and throughout Italy, and has shown work in notable contemporary art galleries in Amsterdam and the U.S.