PULP
Contemporary Cut-Paper by Mia Pearlman, Kako Ueda, Alta Buden, Natasha Bowdoin and Hong Seon Jang
Curated by Alexis Grabowski
On View at Alfred University's Cohen Gallery March 21st - May 17th, 2014
Alfred, NY – Alfred University’s Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce is upcoming exhibition, Pulp, curated by Alexis Grabowski (08’). Pulp is a group exhibition bringing together contemporary artists working with cut, collaged and assembled paper, including Mia Pearlman, Kako Ueda, Natasha Bowdoin, Alta Buden and Hong Seon Jang. These artists, through tedious artistic labor, create intricate and often surreal articulations - ranging from eroded geologic forms and weather systems to elaborate traditional paper-cuts depicting corporeal forms, insects and urban life. Together, the works in Pulp explore the improbable spectrum of possibilities offered by one of the most common staples of artistic production – to be broken down and transformed anew. The exhibition illuminates the flickering dimensionality and solidity of paper-media and the process of artistic production through deconstruction.
Pulp will be on view at Alfred University’s Cohen Gallery, 2 Pine Street Alfred NY, from March 21st to May 17th, 2014. An Opening Reception will be held on Friday, March 21st from 5pm – 7pm, with a discussion with curator Alexis Grabowski at 5:30pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday 10am - 3pm, Wednesdays and Thursdays 12pm - 5pm.
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Mia Pearlman is an internationally exhibiting mixed media artist working in paper, glass and metal. She has been shown at The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Plaatsmaken (Netherlands), The Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), the Centre for Recent Drawing (London); and has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, New York Magazine, The New York Post, Grafik (UK) and Machina (Poland). She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Robert and Sterling Clark Institute, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Urban Glass; and is currently working on a commission for the New York City MTA. Pearlman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
www.miapearlman.com
Kako Ueda is Japanese artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores bodily and natural forms and their intersection with contemporary society. Ueda is represented by George Adams Gallery (NYC) and has been shown at The Museum of Art and Design (NYC), Smack Mellon (NYC), the DeCordova Musuem and Sculpture Park (MA), Kohler Art Center (WI), and the Mint Museum (NC). She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Urban Artist Initiative.
www.kakoueda.com
Natasha Bowdoin is Texas-based visual artist working in cut-paper. Her meticulously constructed images consist of transcribed passages from notable literary figures. She Received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and her BA from Brandeis University. She has completed residencies at the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Bowdoin received a 2007 Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and her work has been exhibited at the Hardesty Arts Center (OK), the CODA Museum (Netherlands), the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), and the Savannah College of Art and Design (GA).
www.natashabowdoin.com
Alta Buden is a Brooklyn-based visual artist working primarily in cut-paper. Using source material culled from personal photographs, google image search and magazines, Buden composes complex images teetering between an inner and exterior world. She exhibits her work primarily in Brooklyn and has also been shown at the Smart Museum of Art (IL) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (IL). Buden received a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship in 2013. She has degrees in Visual Arts, History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Chicago, and is director of HARBOR gallery in Brooklyn.
www.altabuden.com
Hong Seon Jang is a mixed media artist exploring human activity and natural phenomena as it corresponds to destruction and creation. Jang received his MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and BFA from Dan Kook Univeristy. He has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at many institutions, including the Islip Art Museum (East Islip, NY); Smack Mellon (NYC); Dumbo Art Center (NYC); Socrates Sculpture Park (NYC); Hangaram Art Museum(South Korea); and PS122 Gallery (NYC). Jang received the Urban Artist Initiative Grant at the Lower East Side Printshop during his 2011 Special Editions Residency, and other residencies and awards include the Elizabeth Foundations for the Arts; Museum of Arts and Design, Open Studios; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; and the Triangle Artistsʼ Workshop Program, New York, NY among many others.
www.hongseonjang.com
Alexis Grabowski is a visual artist and curator living and working in Woodstock, NY. Her artistic practice explores the transient aspects of place and her work is meticulously executed in ink and watercolor. She is also the Artist-in-Residence Program Director at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony. Pulp is her first curatorial project.
www.alexisgrabowski.com