Veritas
Main Hall Gallery
January 4-30, 2010
Closing Reception: Jan 29, 6:30-10pm
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Danielle Julian-Norton
“Sweetest Dearest” is four sculptures made of sugar that draw association to the physical embodiment of pleasure and indulgence. The sugar cast into distorted, domestic furniture, highlights both beauty and absurdity found in our temporal existence. The furniture is literally sweet, but the subject matter ranges from the out of the ordinary to morbid. The work will provoke the viewer’s contemplation of truth behind sweet exteriors.
Danielle Julian Norton received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Notre Dame, and BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design, where she is currently faculty. Her work is represented by Cynthia Reeves in New York and work experience includes: receiving the Ohio Arts Council Individual Creativity Grant, Headland Center for the Arts residency in San Francisco, Vermont Studio Center Residency in Johnstown Vermont, group exhibitions at Midwest Museum of American Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, Elmhurst Art Museum, Snite Museum of Art, solo exhibitions at Cynthia Reeves New York, Spaces Gallery Cleveland, Weston Art Gallery Cincinnati, and commissions such as the MTV Movie Awards in LA.
daniellejuliannorton.com
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Mariana Smith
I bring together printmaking, drawing, and video installation in order to initiate the dialogue about identity, locality, time, and memory. I juxtapose printed and projected layers and call attention to the corporal as well as emblematic distance between the materiality of printed work and the ephemera of video projection.
I trace the transition, the moment of flux, the suspended in time parable, so that the identities of my images waver within the pastiche of descriptions. Video projections assembled not unlike the layers in the prints and drawings; diminish the gap between the trace and the traced imploding “before” and “after.”
Reaching for the dematerialized elsewhere, the utopian non-place, I assume the role of a nomadic storyteller and invite the viewer to join in my wanderings and to accept the aporia in human existence.
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