Allturnatives: Form + Spirit 2019

center for art in wood - PHiladelphia, PA

A culminating exhibition of an 8-week residency. Works shown by Heide Martin, Hartmut Radman, Per Brandstedt, Joshua Enck, Jacob Zimmerman, Amy Forsyth

Ellie Richard’s exhibition statement:

My practice leans heavily into modes of free form experimentation and play as way to find new territory to investigate. This residency was an ideal platform for these instinctual explorations to occur. Throughout the eight weeks, I puzzled together wood scraps from former projects that allowed new work to grow from old work. I embedded found plastic objects in resin and began to recognize the latent potential for turning this newly-composed medium into functional forms. I developed a wooden chain making system and experienced working within a framework of efficiency and repetition. After viewing the Pennsylvania German chair collection at the Barnes Foundation I endeavored to reproduce a traditional Moravian chair in order to more fully understand its appeal. I reconfigured yardsticks and thought about measuring implements and their useful/lessness. Each of these divergent exercises had their own successes and failures and each of them taught me something more about when to let go and where to push forward.

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