Rockland Center for the Arts

Cale Lane "Steel Doily" flame cut steel

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Artist reception has been rescheduled for:
Sunday, January 30, 1- 4pm

SEVEN :: Material transformations

January 23 - February 27, 2005

Seven is RoCA's annual exhibition that features local and regional artists. This year the exhibition theme centers on local contemporary artists who transform materials through idiosyncratic processes.

Curators :: Daly Flanagan & Lynn Stein

The participating artists are ::

Bill Hochhousen
Kiyomi Iwata
Daniel Kazimierski
Cal Lane
Henry Mandell
Lily Prince
Laura Watt

Bill Hochhousen ::
untitled
carved wood

Bill Hochhousen's recent sculptures have a floral bouquet theme shown upside down, balanced on its blooms with the vase in the air. The wood is charred with a torch, oiled and rubbed. The surface acquires a skin-like surface usually seen in tribal carving. The tree from which the sculpture is made has its roots intact and are used as the crown carving of foliage and flowers. Hochhousen carves through the volume of the wood creating linear layers inspired by the carvings of Papua New Guinea.

Bill Hochhousen has been represented by the Allan Stone Gallery, 55 Mercer Artist Gallery, The Puffin Room and Thorpe Intermedia Foundation. He is on faculty at Pratt Institute where is teaches sculpture and drawing. Hochhousen worked with a master carver in Papua New Guinea.

Kiyomi Iwata ::
Red Two
Dyed silk organza, fabricated and stiffened with stitched wire, gold leaf embellishment
19" x 13.5" x 9"

Kiyomi Iwata has a pronounced reverence for silk. Her silk vessels have an airy presence. Their walls of sheer silk fabric are stiffened with fine cooper wire and sometimes washes of shellac. Their shapes are then sutured and stitched together with thread and wire ties. These delicate forms present a very interesting kind of relentless force; the seams and openings are torn as if something inside has escaped.

Kiyomi Iwata was born in Kobe, Japan and now lives in Rockland County, NY. She has been a recipient of several grants including the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and several Yaddo Awards. Selected exhibitions include "Art Textile Contemporain", Angers, France 2003, "Thread on the Edge" Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, 2002, "Century of Design -Part Four", Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1975 - 2000.

Danial Kazimierski ::
From Iron Blues: The Cyanotypes

Daniel Kazimierski combines the primordial method of making images using a simple pinhole camera and an almost obsolete technique of cynotype printing which is used for making copies of architectural drawings. This natural way of recording images without an optical lens allows the viewer to examine the genuine simplicity and austerity of the forms.

Daniel Kazimierski was born in 1949 in Warsaw. He studied theology at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. He moved to New York in 1980 where he has lived ever since. His artistic pursuits focus on photography (with an emphasis on traditional processes) and short films: he lectures on photography and film at several universities in the United States and Canada (New York University among others). Over the last three decades his works have been shown at over thirty individual and ninety group exhibitions in the US, Canada and Europe.

Cal Lane ::
untitled
flame cut steel installation

Cal Lane uses metalsmithing techniques to embellish everyday tools such as shovels and wheel barrows thus removing their use and replacing function with decoration. "I examine social and cultural ideas by working with visual codes. I appreciate how three-dimensional form involves the space we are in, how it becomes a part of the world, without an obvious function"

Cal Lane is the ninth long-term Artist-in-Residence at the Gallery of Nova Scotia. Lane was born in Halifax and raised on Vancouver Island. She is a certified welder and earned a diploma in Fine Art from Victoria College of Art and is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (2001). In 2001 she was a winner of the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award. She serves on the board of directors of Eye Level Gallery and will teach this summer at NSCA. Lane has had solo and group exhibitions in Halifax,Victoria and New Jersey.

Henry Mandell ::
h.s.e.
encaustic, paper, ink on canvas
21" x 43"

Henry Mandell turns the endless stream of Internet information into art. He uses data from weather satellites and telescopes. He turns scientific language into work that is compelling. Mandell prints out data on paper and adheres it in a gridlike pattern to a stretched canvas. He often covers these garbled and overprinted statements with encaustic. The stream of data from cyberspace becomes a universal stream of conscious in space.

Henry Mandell recent exhibitions include solo exhibits - Pana Vision at Fahey Design Studios NY, NY, New Paintings at Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY, group exhibits - Hello Dolly, Atmosphere and Paper at Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn,NY. Mandell attended Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts and received a BFA from Itahaca College.

Lilly Prince ::
Cumulus, #5
15" x 22"

Lily Prince uses candlesmoke marks combined with her fingerprints on paper to create atmospheres based on clouds. She builds up layers of smoke and fingerprints to create a shimmering, pulsating sensation inherent of movement and transition.

In 2005, Lily Prince will be having a mid-career retrospective at Johnson & Johnson World Headquaters Gallery in New Brunswick, NJ and a solo show at Domo Gallery in Summit, New Jersey. Her work has been in over 40 national and international exhibitions during the past 2 decades. Recent reviews include The New York Times and The Newark Star Ledger. Prince's work is included in the flatfiles of Pierogi Gallery and Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Works have been commissioned by numerous hotels including The Mandarin Oriental Hotels and The Ritz Carlton. Lily Prince has her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Bard College. Prince is an Assistant Professor of art at William Paterson University of New Jersey.

Laura Watt ::
Walking Backwards
oil on canvas
32" x 56"

Laura Watts' densely patterned paintings possess a coherent methodology of grids and nets. Her distinct abstract vocabulary applies textile strategies such as repetition and patterns.

Laura Watt is a graduate of the MFA program at Yale University. She has recently exhibited at the Thirteen Gallery, Danbury, CT, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY and the Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT.

Represented by Kenise Barnes

Gallery Information ::
Gallery Hours are weekdays from 10:00am to 4:00pm and weekends from 1:00 to 4:00pm. The gallery is closed holidays. Admission is free or by suggested donation.