CURRENT, PAST, and FUTURE EXHIBITIONS

exhibition 5

2008-05-25T09:04:00.000-07:00

Connecting Coordinates: Points, Lines, and Planes
New Constructions from Sonjie Feliciano Solomon

Opening Reception: June 4, Wednesday, 6-8pm

On View: June 4-June 30, 2008

We are pleased to present Connecting Coordinates: Points, Lines and Planes: New Constructions from Sonjie Feliciano Solomon.
The exhibition includes a large-scale, site-specific, collapsible textile sculpture and low-relief wall pieces all rooted in the universal language of geometry.

Sonjie Feliciano Solomon's sculptural textile pieces are an exercise in balancing aesthetics and functionality. Here, sheer fabric is pieced together to create 3-dimentional quilts of soft, rolling landscapes. Composed only of fabric and thread, the structure comes from the sewn seams, and the pieces are collapsible for storage or shipping. Totally flexible and scalable in size, there is the potential to quickly change an environment and fill a whole space in minutes.

Feliciano Solomon's wall pieces, a series of curved transparent lines, are mounted on mirrored backgrounds and come together to form delicate, gossamer volumes. Reflection of the surrounding environment completes the illusion of shapes floating in air. Reflection of the viewer reminds us that the individual’s perception is integral to the completion of the piece in the mind’s eye.

Sonjie Feliciano Solomon uses industrial design principles and tools to manipulate and map points. She employs painstaking, repetitive hand construction and finishing to complete each piece. Combining the worlds of design and craft, Feliciano Solomon’s work juxtaposes the systematic, calculated design process and the organic, ephemeral result.

Feliciano Solomon’s intention is for the work to speak to people first based purely on visual perception and then progress to a curiosity about deconstructing the process. Ephemerality and transformation, light and shadow, structure and collapsibility, the designed and the organic are all qualities investigated in ways to surprise and delight the viewer.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and Georgetown University, Sonjie Feliciano Solomon now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Join us!

2008-03-21T08:49:00.001-07:00

Saturday and Sunday, May 17th and 18th, 12-6pm

Sonya Studio Stroll 2008

Free and open to the public. Over 100 artists exhibiting work at 32 locations.

Pick up your map here at I.O.I and see our current exhibit.

For more information: www.sonyaonline.org

exhibition 4

2008-03-11T17:27:00.000-07:00

The Chicken Dinner, The Box

New Works by Max Yawney

March 29th - May 18th, 2008

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29th, 6pm

Gallery Talk: Saturday, April 19th, 7pm

Max Yawney's large scale paintings involves the pairing of two disparate images on two separate supports. The two abstract images presented function as elements of a presented situation. Each element has no particular narrative, except as a contributor to the situation. The visual impact is similar to the viewing of a large tree with a bicycle leaning against it. The tree and the bicycle have no relationship to each other in pragmatic terms, however the relationship is formed due to their situation and their implicit beauty in contrast. Yawney's paintings expand our understanding of the complex conversation between objects in our visual world, as well as, our understanding of painting as object.

Yawney's paint handling amply demonstrates this dialogue between the two disparate images using, color, texture, and depth. The painting varies from loose and fluid to structural and composed. Yawney's endless concern is quite like that of a poet working to place individual words with strong sonic, intellectual, and/or textural qualities against one another into an ordered context.

Max Yawney has been painting since the mid 1980's. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Max Yawney Gallery Talk and Reading

2008-03-10T10:11:00.000-07:00

exhibition 3:

2008-01-20T23:10:00.000-08:00

Joseph De Leo: The Portrait Project

February 9th- March 16th, 2008

Photo studio in gallery: Saturdays and Sundays, February 9,10 and 16,17, 12-6pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 23rd, 6-9pm

photo studio in gallery

opening reception

postcard

Photographer, Joseph De Leo, created an interactive portrait studio within the gallery that invited visitors to participate in the art making process. The show began as a performance and culminated into a gallery installation. All who entered the space played a roll in exploring the unique relationship created between the photographer and his subject. The final installation showcases the diverse faces of the community, documenting the differences and similarities captured by the artist.

exhibition 2:

2008-01-20T18:24:00.000-08:00

The 100 Bucks Art Show

December 1-23, 2007

Opening Reception: December 1st, 6-9pm

Lindsey Adelman Jeff Amram Kennis Baptiste

Elodie Blanchard Oote Boe Donna Brady

Nancy Brooks Brody Yyonne Brooks Doug Beube

Azul Ceballos Evan Z. Crane Joseph De Leo

Carolyn Desalu Eliza Fernand Zachary Flemming

Aaron Sing Fox June Gaddy Nicholas Grant

Eve Havlicek Jen Hyde Kristy Knight

Joe Levickas Lauren Lewis Rosie McCobb

Anna Mosby-Coleman Andrea Rosen Sonjie Solomon

Noah Spencer Max Yawney Lily Yung

All works of art and design retailing for $100.

We invited local artists and designers to create works of art to sell for $100 during the busiest shopping season of the year. We want to encourage people to buy art and design products from local talents. Our 2008 call for submissions will be this fall. Please email us if you would like to participate - info@ioi-nyc.com

opening reception

exhibition 1:

2008-01-19T21:38:00.001-08:00

Anomaly- Group Show

November 7-21, 2008

Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Doug Beube

Mario Camacho

Evan Z Crane

Aaron Sing Fox

Krisy Knight

Kathy Stecko

opening reception

gallery view- sculpture by Doug Buebe

gallery view

gallery view- paintings by Aaron Sing Fox