Hidden Exposure- Next Friday, July 25th
Recent write up on upcoming show in Milwaukee's Vital Source Magazine
(halfway down the page under various locations)
Press Release-
Hidden Exposure @ The Armoury Gallery
July 25th - August 23rd
Opening Reception held Gallery Night, July 25th 5-10 pm
All artists will be in attendance
New Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12 - 5
The Armoury Gallery is pleased to announce Hidden Exposure, the third exhibition for the new gallery, with an opening reception to be held Summer Gallery Night, July 25th, from 5-10pm.
Hidden Exposure includes works by three artists all using decoration and distortion in their works to expose elements of life often looked over. Using this method of disguise to contradict first impressions and seemingly pleasant compositions, an honest and somewhat cynical message about contemporary society can be found.
Born and raised in the Midwest, Philadelphia painter and printmaker Jackie Hoving will have a collection of her suspiciously playful pieces on display. Earning her BFA at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2000 and her MFA at Indiana University in 2002, Hoving has since shown her works consistently, primarily in her current hometown of Philadelphia. Hoving was also awarded the Leeway Foundation Grant and has just returned from a residency at the Vermont Studio Center which has influenced her most recent body of work.
Hoving's mixed-media works, brightly lit with patterns of liquid color mischievously swirling around vintage-esque stripes and florals, are slow to reveal the violence contained within. Using nature as her metaphor, Hoving's work deals with the media's contamination of the truth and society's filtration of the reality outside of our American world. Hoving's works are one part pleasantry, and one part reality check.
AOMIII, or Arthur O. Mohagen III currently resides in Madison Wisconsin, where he earned his MFA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison - previously earning his BFA from the State University of New York at Fredonia. AOMIII has been showing consistently in Madison as of late, and has four solo shows to his credit.
AOMIII's work picks apart common elements of society and popular culture - most often the fashion model or rebellious youth - placing them in unfamiliar environments or against unnatural backgrounds. The viewer is confronted immediately by a beautiful face buried in makeup, fashion and/or image, but only later realizes things are not quite what they appear. Smooth lines, clean surfaces and beautiful faces are a misleading glimpse into AOMIII's work.
Finally, Milwaukee local Allison Heape will present a new series of small paintings. Graduating in 2006 from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design with an Integrated Fine Arts major, Heape's work deals with the human form, taking it apart and distorting it until all the viewer finds is an arrangement of color, texture and shape, reminiscent of something familiar.
