Detail Image Courtesy of Georgina Arroyo
On View: July 2 - August 13
Opening Reception: July 2 (7-9 pm)
Ice Cream Social is excited to present a small group exhibition, Like Morning Dew. It will feature work from eight artists, including Georgina Arroyo, Theadora Frost, Lacey Hall, Bradlee Hertrick, Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo, Jesse Moy, Anna Victoria Regner, and Lane Sell. A story of de-creation, protection and transformation unfolds via intimate sculptures, dreamy works on paper, eroded salt forms, tabulated drawings, choreographed paintings, and codified installations.
Once upon a time there was a very large rose. It had the color of deep vermilion. A heavy red wine, one that brings dreams and drunkenness at once. Consoling but lethal. It had so many petals, it was, in fact, too large for its own good. Fading and hanging deeper and deeper each day until the blossom fell from its stem before ever wilting. Onto a soft ground and into the darkness of a grave. The moment is brief, the moment is over. Fleetingness is the property of lasting for a very short time. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying. The quality of something that has to pass away, or rather transform like morning dew.
A flower is only seen toward the end of its existence, to be briefly beautiful, and then petals are torn apart by the unforgiving weight of gravity. Petal by petal, de-creating, falling into pieces to decompose and slip away into the soil. Or: we eat it. Because still, we love it. We embed it into ourselves, so as to not lose it.
- Anna Victoria Regner
Artists
Georgina Arroyo is a painter and sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY. She was born and raised in Queens, NY and received a BFA at Lesley University College of Art & Design in Cambridge, MA. Georgina's work focuses on imagined histories, neighborhood change, and spiritual explorations.
“Our objects tell stories about who we are
Our past and our present
What do you carry with you?
My mother visits the santero for healing, goes to the botanica to pick up the ingredients
For her moon bath
I don’t have much knowledge about my past but I have recipes for healing to turn to
Spiritual healers to tell me how to moon bathe
Ancestors to help me earth travel
I am looking at the past, creating my own history, piecing truths and tales together
Using earth (clay) to build objects of ritual, of remembrance, objects to hold other, smaller objects
Creating a history from found objects, presenting them on and in my sculptures
and turning what is found, what is anonymous, into something personal
These are ritual objects, to hold precious possessions
But not my possessions
You can't carry anything with you (to the next life)”
-Georgina Arroyo
Theadora Frost’s work spans various disciplines such as painting, performance, sculpture, and wearable pieces. Interested in the performative and sculptural possibilities within the space of painting, Theadora sets up scenarios with her paintings and builds constructions to be performed with. In her recent paintings, watercolor is poured onto canvas and fabric. These works recall dance floors with bright shifting spotlights or diagrammatic movement scores. Theadora also makes hand-painted suits that are worn as costumes in performances, as well as function as paintings installed on the wall.
Theadora lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from Portland State University and is currently a graduate student at SUNY Purchase College.
Lacey Hall is a painter and animator from Pittsburgh, PA. She explores storytelling by creating imagined spaces built from a personal and symbolic language. Shells, mirrors, ticking clocks, dogs, tables, and angels exist in spaces inspired by Sienese and Indian painting, film, and personal experiences. Through the process of painting and animation, forms disappear and reappear, shifting in color, scale, and texture. Lacey has a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently pursuing her MFA at SUNY Purchase.
Bradlee Hertrick is a conceptual artist from Louisville, Kentucky, currently living and working in New York City. Pulling inspiration from a religious upbringing, underground heavy music scenes, and midwestern visual culture, he is interested in the infrastructure of external systems, both natural and artificial, that dominate the internal sense of self in the same way that languages shape the way we think.
Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo was born of Puerto Rican parentage in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan and raised in the High Bridge Section of The Bronx. Ruíz Lorenzo is an artist, writer, and curator based in New York City.
Jesse Moy is an artist from New Jersey living in New York. Through direct observation and pattern-making, Jesse explores the depiction of landscapes and natural processes. His work borrows from the visual languages of printmaking, diagrammatic drawing and Chinese landscape painting.
Anna Victoria Regner is an installation and performance artist from Vienna, currently living in New York. The main focus in her practice lies on storytelling, which roots in observations, wishes, memories, and dreams. Her pieces may be considered poetic spaces in which physical presence and imagination merge, consisting of ceramics, drawings, paintings, sound, diverse organic materials, and text. The real constitutes itself by permanently overlapping with the symbolic and the imaginary. Writing is always the starting point for collecting reoccurring thoughts about the everyday fantastic, alternative realities, facts, and fiction.
Lane Sell is founder, owner and master printer of Shoestring Press where he works with artists and instructs classes in a variety of print mediums. His monumental silkscreen print works are created from body prints, archival images, text and found objects, and often call for the participation of the audience.
Lane Sell was born in Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands, in 1984. He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied Classics and Visual Art. In 2013 and 2014, his work won grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Visit the Shoestring Press website for examples of Lane Sell's master printer work.
