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Skylines as Sculpture
Gordon Binder
Binder has focused a lot of his recent work on cityscapes. For this show, he found inspiration in the work of Anne Truitt, Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd, and others. “The forms and shapes these artists created intrigued me,” Binder said. “I read about Kelly’s experience in Paris after WWII, visiting the studios of Alexander Calder and other artists. He would emerge on the street, taken by the forms and shapes he saw in the Paris skyline. Binder's paintings and drawings imagine urban skylines more as sculpture than as a group of buildings, more a collection of monoliths not unlike what these artists created.
Binder studied at the Corcoran with the late DC artist William Christenberry and has been showing his artwork for more than 25 years. His work is in collections in the Washington area, in New York and San Francisco, in Los Angeles, Aspen, Sanibel, Boston and elsewhere in New England.
He works in the environmental field, having studied architecture at the University of Michigan, and having time as a Loeb Fellow ’79-80 at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. A range of his artwork can also be seen on his website, www.binderrawsonartworks.com.
Meet and Greet the Artist…with masks
Saturday, October 30, 1pm to 4pm
Saturday, November 6, 1pm to 4pm
Saturday, November 20, 2pm to 5pm
In The Lower Gallery
Emergence
Iwan Bagus · Leena Jayaswal · Suliman Abdullah · Lisa Allen · Gary Anthes · Bob Burgess · Soomin Ham · Jo Levine · Steven Marks · Chris Prosser · Rania Razek · Shaun Schroth · Alexandra Silverthorne · Fred Zafran
Studio Gallery’s group photography exhibit Emergence shows how these artists have grappled with the pandemic, creating new and vibrant responses to a world characterized by uncertainty and fear.
“Artists have long been fascinated and inspired by the theme of ambiguity,” said co-curator, photographer, and professor Iwan Bagus. “There is a mystery. There is something in between; past and present, old and new, life and death. Last year, on this date, no one knew what would happen in 2021. But here we are, looking back, recording it, and projecting it into our images. I’m very excited to see how viewers respond to these evocative and challenging images.”
Co-curator, photographer, and professor, Leena Jayaswal added: “These past few years, we have seen seismic shifts in the way we allow the world has operated. “Emerging from the Wreckage ” is a a look at how fourteen artists have interpreted this new landscape. From investigating fake news and identity politics, to personal challenges and reports from the home front, this exhibition explores how these themes emerged during the COVID crisis.”
