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Traywick Contemporary

October 8 - December 18, 2011

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895 Colusa Avenue Berkeley, CA 94707
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Visitors Tammy Rae Carland, Pirate Platform, Sacha's, 2011, Digital archival C-print, 40 x 50"
Traywick Contemporary is pleased to announce Visitors, an invitational group exhibition featuring the work of Rebecca Barten, Tammy Rae Carland, Amy Rathbone, Signe Olsen, Melody Owen and Miriam Stahl. Visitors is co-curated by Lena Wolff and includes the work of artists who are also participating in Paper Quilt Project, a collaborative exhibition (organized by Wolff) showing concurrently at the Berkeley Art Center, near Traywick Contemporary, in Live Oak Park. The Visitors exhibition combines notions of hidden realities, natural forces, and structural manipulation in an exploration of what it means to be a visitor. Inspired by a range of art historical and literary sources, as well as the natural world around her, Rebecca Barten's collaged pencil drawings are at once mysterious and calculated. Her depictions of animal forms are densely populated with colored lines, layers of drawing and patterns of cut and punched paper that create compact fields of energy within each piece. Tammy Rae Carland's work utilizes photography, experimental video and limited-edition artist publications to explore questions of memory, affect and objecthood. Her complex pieces assemble an emotive, if sometime oblique, archive that attempts to bridge the artist's personal experience with the public domain. Signe Olson's latest work is at the intersection of painting and drawing. Derived from the intricate delicacy of architectural motifs, the individualized squares of the structures depicted in her work evoke the atmosphere of a many-storied home, cluttered with memories and spontaneous expressions of emotion. Miriam Stahl's politically and socially charged prints are strongly influenced by her work in the public sector. Her bold, graphic works reflect the artist's strong interest in widespread societal collaboration and participation. Melody Owen's work explores the ideas of connectedness and interweaving. Intrigued by the idea visitors who overlap and come and go, yet are connected by time and place, the artist echoed these transient relationships in her prints of carved postcards, which are simultaneously revealing and obscured. Thursday - Saturday, 10 - 4, by appointment 510-527-1214