September 3 – November 30, 2020
Meet the Artists: November 11th, 2020
Read Nicole DeSimone’s review of this roundtable discussion.
An exhibit featuring the artwork of four 2020 Summer volunteers with Unbound Visual Arts. It dives into the concept of the temporary and the current.
Artist Statements and Biographies:
Sofija Chroneos
Sofija Chroneos is an MA candidate in Art Education at the Boston University College of Fine Arts, and also completed a BFA in Sculpture from Boston University in May 2020. Upon graduating in 2021, she will pursue both k-12 teaching and artistic practice.
Layering reused materials through space has been the focus of my work. I am continually searching for materials, whether found or re-purposed, to use with limited regard to their utilitarian value. This process disrupts their origin but establishes a new place they can exist. At the same time, I do not disguise their physical qualities: a box remains a box; a piece of cloth remains a piece of cloth.
In my undergraduate studio, the work was in constant flux, never really beginning or ending. This continuation at times segued into installation format in a new space. My undergraduate installations were spontaneous, improvised manifestations of this material process, and were “complete” based only on the given time constraints of the moment. Highly intuitive, this work has been more akin to an attitude or disposition rather than a goal-oriented process. I apply similar improvisational processes in making my two-dimensional works.
The sculptural work relies on my own interaction with the materials and, site-specific, the space it is contained within. It is full of contradictions—being about nothing yet everything, full of questions but offering no answers, touching upon a delicate balance between logic and play. It is non-narrative, yet does not preclude narrative interpretations. As a result, this work asks a lot of the viewer. Assuredness about one’s aesthetic sensibility and physical, optical, and spatial relationship to the work may come into question.
Rachel Hargreaves
Walk among the classical, architectural giants of a city while gazing at the graffiti lining the street. How do we classify the new art of the people and the designs of the old institution? Read through the everyday terrors as your eye fixes on the bold headlines. But do you see the colors and faces hidden in the photograph? All of these works by Rachel Hargreaves grapple with questions of aesthetic and art’s place in politics, architecture, and tragedy. She studied art and education at American University and now teaches at a DC Public middle school in Washington, DC. She asks her students to be critical of words and art around them in a similar way.
Julia Marcantonio
Julia Marcantonio is a rising senior at Brown University in Providence, majoring in Modern Culture and Media. “The digital photographs shown in this exhibition were taken while I was studying in Greece. Working in both color and black and white, I am interested in experimenting with texture, flatness/depth, and attention to negative space. I am drawn to puzzling images and enjoy taking an instinctive and unplanned approach to capturing photographs.”
Cynthia Bryndis Schilling
Cynthia Bryndis Schilling is an MFA candidate in graphic design at UMass Dartmouth, and holds a BM in piano performance from UMass Amherst. As a pianist and artist, I am inspired by music’s aesthetic and structural qualities. Music is imbued with stunningly beautiful emotion and expressivity, and I aim to capture that through color, form, depth, texture, and abstraction in my art and design work.