CHROMA
On view: July 17th-August 19th
Reception: July 17th, (7-9pm)
Public Color-Wheel workshop: July 18th, 2-3pm
CHROMA is the result of a long distance collaboration between Lisa Solomon and Christine Buckton Tillman that explores color theory through objects from everyday life, expressed through crowd sourced installation, drawings, and sculpture. The titular piece, Chroma consists of a large scale crowd sourced installation made of objects sent from all over the United States [and elsewhere] constructed of various forms of “junk”― arbitrary and otherwise disposable items― that read as one color. The installation will be a culmination of sorting, arranging and compiling the materials into an orderly, chromatically compelling piece, with the intent of elevating the viewer’s relationship with the mundane debris that we interact with on a daily basis.
About the Artists:
Lisa Solomon is a mixed media artist based in the Bay Area who moonlights as a professor, graphic designer and illustrator. She often questions and deconstructs the meaning of identity and personal histories through the use of mediums traditionally associated with domestic crafts – particularly embroidery and crochet. A “happa” [1/2 Japanese, 1/2 Caucasian] she feels as though hybridization is continually at play in her work. She exhibits her artwork both nationally and internationally including such venues as the Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS, the Oakland Museum of California, Koumi Machi Museum in Nagano, Japan, Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angels, Fouladi Projects in San Francisco, and Gallery Nicoletta Rusconi in Milan, Italy. She is also the author of Knot Thread Stitch – Exploring Creativity Through Embroidery and Mixed Media {Quarry 2012}, and illustrator of the forthcoming 20 Ways to Draw a Chair {Quarry 2015}. In 2013 MIEL press published a monograph of her work, and she’s currently an artist in residence at Kala Institute in Berkeley. Lisa shares her home with her husband, a young daughter, a bevy of pets and many many spools of thread.
Christine Buckton Tillman hails from the great Northern Chicago suburb of Libertyville, IL-home of the Wildcats. She earned her BA at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, and earned her MFA from the University of Iowa.
Christine is primarily a very flat sculptor who draws more often than she makes sculptures. Her main interests as an artist lie in ideas surrounding the handmade, celebrations, and man-made interpretations of natural forms.
Christine is a member of the Drawing Center Viewing Program, Transformer Flatfile, and received a 2010 Maryland State Arts Council Grant for her Works on Paper. She is on the Upper School Faculty at The Park School of Baltimore.