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Rowan Morrison Gallery

October 11 - November 16, 2008

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330 40th Street Oakland, CA 94609
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Volume Too A Bridge Over a Deep Gorge (night)
Artist’s Reception: Saturday, 10/11/2008, 7 - 10pm Rowan Morrison is proud to present “Volume Too”, an exhibitions of new works by New York artist Raylene Gorum. Gorum will be exhibiting selections from her well-traveled sketchbooks as well as what she refers to as "Tapings", large landscapes created using a wide variety of “tapes": such as hardware store varietals, custom manufactured editions, vinyl, and handmade silkscreen-textured adhesive panels. The Tapings, assembled upon translucent drafting film embellished with ink and watercolor, draw on themes of fantastical urbanity and its tenuous relationship to the natural landscape. What makes these collage pieces so intriguing is Raylene’s knowledge and confidence in Architectural draftsmanship. Volume Too is a series of such Tapings in which Gorum engages in a dialogue with the acclaimed Japanese woodblock print artist, Hiroshige. Both artists 'draw with a knife', producing their works by precise cutting (he to wood, she to tape), and share a celebration of color. Gorum quotes compositions from Hiroshige's prints of travelers in Edo period Japan, exchanging villagers with modern characters in distorted American vistas. A Bay Area native, Gorum studied architecture at California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo and at Ecole d'Architecture Vals de Marne in Paris. She presently lives and works in New York City.