Courtney Tramposh

In recycling materials culled from previous sculptures, Courtney Tramposh continues a formal investigation into the reconfiguration of an object's history and function. Her works carry multiple and varied references to art, architecture, furniture design, patterning. Many works contain within them an allusion to a material void, which, in calling attention to its absence, points to a missing element essential to the understanding of the form's existence. The aesthetic and conceptual focus is dissolved and scattered to the perimeters of the artwork so that the sum of all its parts forms a question, rather than an answer.

Courtney Tramposh was born and raised in Prairie Village, Kansas. She earned her BFA at the University of Kansas in 2003, and, after attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, moved to New York. She has recently completed her MFA from Hunter College in sculpture. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
www.ctramposh.blogspot.com

Denise Schatz

Miniature Garden is a collaborative books project started by Denise Schatz. Some recent work includes; The Unsolved Problems and Paper Pyramid with Casey Cook, book of rocks with Ariel Dill and Miya Osaki, and Eclipse Book with Patricia Valencia.
www.miniaturegarden.org

Denise Schatz was born in Los Angeles, California. Schatz received her MFA from Hunter College in 2007. She lives and works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
www.deniseschatz.net

Sunday, November 2 – Rachel Higgins, Caleb Rogers, and Mark Taylor

Our first exhibition shows the work of a trio of artists, Rachel Higgins, Caleb Rogers, and Mark Taylor, who share a sense of humor which is embedded in their distinct interpretations of their environments.

RACHEL HIGGINS

Rachel Higgins is a Brooklyn-based artist originally from Alabama and an MFA candidate in combined media at Hunter College. Her sculpture uses the languages of commercial architecture, domestic decor, and youth DIY culture to struggle with the exclusivity and insularity within artist and activist communities. Exploring sentimental and nostalgic connections to everyday objects and social spaces, her constructions embrace a kind of pathetic charm. Discouragement becomes inspiration for unsustainable structures--precarious, yet happy in their temporary existence.
www.rachelhiggins.com

From the Subletters Show:





Other samples of Higgins' Work:

MARK TAYLOR

Mark Taylor grew up in Texas and has a BFA from Texas State University in printmaking. He is recently an Oakland California transplant on sabbatical in Brooklyn. In his new cluster pieces, he responds to his new environment with hundreds of small drawings which are installed overlapping each other in pile on the wall. The intention is an overload of information. He quotes the musician Dan Deacon, whom said it best, "everything at once all the time forever".
www.youarealreadythere.blogspot.com

CALEB ROGERS

Caleb Rogers will show a new series of photographs that sensitizes the subconscious through a flood of images. He has edited street signs, simplistic compositions, and social peculiarities to form a humorous and globalized perspective of contemporary society. The photographs overall presence creates a landscape likened to watching all television channels at once, but paused; a kin to the constant feed of information we have evolved to desire.
www.spacemaps.blogspot.com