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Exhibitions

5/11/2013 - 6/29/2013
Unreal

Unreal

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11 2013; 5-8pm

Ceramic Sculptor Christina Osheim, painter Benedict Oddi, and sculptor/draftsman Allen Linder exhibit together for the first time in this exhibition curated by Brentwood Arts Exchange staff. Although working in different forms and media, each artist shares sensibilities in their exploration of imagination and 21st century inheritance of early-mid 20th century surrealism. Allen Linder, widely known as a sculptor and represented by galleries across the U.S., will show recent drawings and two dimensional work. Benedict Oddi is the head of the Painting Department at Tennessee Technological University, and will be exhibiting in the Metro area for only the second time. Christina Osheim received an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy in 2012, and is currently a studio artist at the regional visual arts powerhouse Red Dirt Studios.

7/15/2013 - 8/24/2013
Nostalgia Structures

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 20, 5-8pm
Artist's Si Jae Byun, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Megan Mueller and Rachel Schmidt have strong themes of whimsy, structure, play and nostalgia that run through their artwork. These ideas manifest into forms of physical and imagined structures loosely based on habitable spaces that reference a memory, a nostalgia for something forgotten or unknown. Each artist has their own playful approach, and each comes to their creative process armed with a diverse range of media and materials. In Nostalgia Structures, Byun, Ilchi, Mueller, and Schmidt will present site specific installations, sculptures, and 2-dimensional works, many of which are being created for this exhibition. Each artist will address the concept of nostalgia, often with a heavy lean toward the autobiographical. Through this work, Nostalgia Structures becomes a dialogue between artists from Iran, South Korean and the US, speaking to fundamental concepts about how we see our life-scapes and how we choose to live within them.

9/9/2013 - 10/19/2013
Her Words

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14, 5-8pm
Led by artist Monica Jahan Bose, Her Words is a collaborative printmaking and story project celebrating women’s literacy in the remote island of Katakhali, Bangladesh, Bose’s ancestral village; and where Samhati, a Maryland-based non-profit, participates in an eco-project that empowers women. The women of Katakhali have recently learned to read, rebuilding their lives after devastating cyclones in 2008 and 2009. Bose has collaborated with 12 of these courageous women to create 18-foot-long woodblock prints on saris using words they have learned along with designs and images. The project also documents the lives of the women and records their oral histories through photo/video. This exhibition presents the creative outcomes of this art, literacy, and empowerment project to the U.S. audience for the first time.

11/04/2013 - 12/28/2013
Cianne Fragione

Cianne Fragione’s art pours over with the physical material of paint and mark-making as an act of exploration. Her complex use of color and her layered covering up of forms create images that reveal themselves slowly and with great reward. An inheritor of the San Francisco Bay school of abstract expressionism, her paintings possess the unique quality of appearing large no matter what size they are. They carry a sophistication that can only be built through years of work in the studio; they are at once of the this time and also firmly rooted in the uniquely American abstract expressionist tradition. Her exhibition at the Brentwood Arts Exchange will present a selection of new works inspired by her residencies in Southern Italy, at Pennsylvania’s Soaring Gardens, and the landscapes and spaces of our own region.

01/13/2014 - 03/08/2014
Bill Harris

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 18, 2014
Bill Harris creates artwork with consummate craftsmanship and powerful, clear-eyed social commentary. Perhaps best known as a printmaker, he is also an accomplished wood turner, and brings the two processes together in masterful wall-mounted sculptures that contrast exacting technical precision with vibrant color in complex, dynamic form. Area arts aficionados will at once recognize Harris’s work as understated yet powerful perspectives on Washington’s strong tradition of off-the-wall canvases and bold all-over treatment of color that anchors much of the regional art community. They are more than that, though. With references to flight as freedom, as well as bullets, arrows, African masks – sometimes with hair, and military-style medals, they speak about our community, history, and the ups and downs of social struggle. Given command of the entire Brentwood Arts Exchange gallery, Harris’ exhibition engages, challenges, offers space for interpretation, and if you’re open to it, teaches.