Using It Up Group Show

Using It Up
Group Show
Dumbo, NYC, June 2008

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Rabbit Hole Studio
33 Washington St
Brooklyn, New York 11201
T: 718 852 1500
Shawn and Christine

Curated by:
JohnJ McGurk
jjmcgurk@gmail.com
401 743 5638

Sponsored by:
ELWA Productions
Whitney McGurk
elwaproductions@gmail.com

Furhter Sponsors
Bar Martignetti

Artists:

Zane Claverie
Shawn Gilheeney
David Allyn
Quinn Corey

Opening Reception:
June 5, 2008

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For the month of June The Rabbit Hole gallery will be host to four emerging artists from Providence, RI. Curated by JohnJ Mcgurk, the show has been brought together to showcase the work of unrepresented artists working in a wide range of styles and mediums.

The city of Providence is small, but is home to a large population of artists and creative types drawn by the cheap living and “underground” reputation as a lively and interesting art scene. Although each very different in style and execution, these artist’s work embodies a certain ethos and language that could be considered unique to the city of Providence itself. The use of found objects and imagery is not new, but the images found and objects created can be of a certain vernacular to a certain place, in a specific time.

Shawn Gilheeney’s work brings focus to the decaying industrial lands. Gilheeny’s work is based on the urban experience, creating street art, paintings, and prints using the themes of nomadism, decay, brick, and electricity. In his paintings he creates life where it has been lost and intrigue where there are only memories.

Zane Claverie uses found materials to make large scale cut and paste collalges. Each work has a theme and uses a range of materials, old and new, to open a window into many years of pictorial history, graphic design, and illustration.

In a new body of work that will round the show off with a little Providence psychedelia, Quin Cory ’s new work is weird, loud, and it may make you squirm. He is coming of the wall and creating assemblages from detritus found in the streets and lost spaces of Providence.
David Allyn creates ceramics tile reliefs using layers of color and imagery. Using decals and porcelian, Allyn’s political commentary engages issues of gentrification and consumerism. Marrying fine art and craft, his relief sculptures offer a fresh vision of our contemporary age.

The streets of Providence are lined with old factories and buildings in various states of decay and rehabilitation. It is an evolving testament to the industrial revolution and more recently, the condominium and urban renewal extravagnzas. In essence, each artist is soaking up as much of our postindustrial landscape as possible and translating the imagery, sounds, and colors into new and exciting works of art. Using it up, so as not to create any more waste!