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Objects for Reading

Objects for Reading
April 9 – May 20, 2022Opening
April 9, 2022
Viewing Hours 1 – 5 pm
Reception 5 – 7 pm
The Third Rooom (Jason Robert Bauer)
John Delk
Kim Markel
Sean McClelland (NAFCO)
Ian McMahon (IMA)
Andrew Murphy/Elliot Meier
Christin Ripley
Yoshihiro Sergel (YSDM)with curated reading list by Jonette O’Kelley Miller

In celebration of the Open Reading Room, Ann Street Gallery presents Objects for Reading, a group exhibition featuring the work of The Third Rooom (Jason Robert Bauer); John Delk; Kim Markel;  Sean McClelland (NAFCO); Ian McMahon (IMA); Andrew Murphy/Elliot Meier; Christin Ripley; Yoshihiro Sergel (YSDM). The exhibition will be on display from April 9–May 20, 2022, after which select objects will showcased with in the Open Reading Room where visitors will have the opportunity to engage with the objects.

Objects for Reading considers the act of reading as a framework for the creative production of objects which facilitate one’s engagement with printed matter. The participating artist or maker imbues their work with this functionality, yet each object demonstrates a specific aesthetic drawn from each’s differentiated lines of material and poetic inquiry.

Presented along with Objects for Reading is a selection of books curated by Jonette O’Kelley Miller, art historian, curator and freelance writer.

The Open Reading Room is a dedicated space focused on artist books & ephemera, art books, and other cultural media that is accessible and free to the public during Gallery open hours.

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

The Third Rooom (Jason Robert Bauer) works with the vision of bringing light energy and nature into living spaces through aesthetic and conceptual explorations, creating artwork that transcends the human/object experience using the unique qualities of glass and other mediums.

John Delk is an American visual artist based in Newburgh NY.

Kim Markel is a first generation American artist and designer. Based in the Hudson Valley, Kim’s studio is driven by curiosity and the desire to create captivating objects through reimagining materials and processes.

Sean McClelland (NAFCO) founded North American Furniture Company with his own line of furniture, lighting and interior goods. With a healthy reverence for the past and a desire to push the limits of the visual and tactile experience, McClelland’s pieces are an amalgamation of history and current thought. He believes furniture is meant to be used and as such should result in timeless satisfaction through those items we choose to surround ourselves with.

Ian McMahon (IMA) is an American artist based in Newburgh NY.

Andrew Murphy/Elliot Meier are a woodworker/cabinet maker based in Newburgh and an architect/designer based in Brooklyn who have collaborated for 10 years on projects ranging in scale from furniture pieces to a custom design/built residence in Newburgh.

Christin Ripley specializes in hand-printed textiles that are formed into pillows, furniture & sculpture. All items are made start to finish by Ripley in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her studio processes include: Turkish Ebru marbling, serigraph, relief printing, wood-working, bookbinding, sewing & upholstery. Her philosophical influences include: Incrementalism, the Bauhaus, Mathematics, & Suminagashi.

Yoshihiro Sergel (YSDM) is a Japanese-American designer based in Newburgh NY. His practice imagines design as a prismatic lens integrating spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments.

Ann Street Gallery is supported by M&T Bank

Date

Apr 9, 2022 - May 20, 2022
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Ann Street Gallery

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Ann Street Gallery
104 Ann Street Newburgh, New York 12550

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