GALLERY ROUTE ONE EXHIBITIONS: Becca Barolli, Out of Hand Eric Kunsman, Thou Art…Will Give… Dane Singh, Monsters and Nightmares

Friday, February 14th through Sunday, March 22nd 

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 15th, 3 – 5 PM 

Artist Talks, 2:30 – 3 PM

Center Gallery 

Becca Barolli, Out of Hand

The work of Becca Barolli features abstract steel wire sculptures which utilize textile processes to examine issues of obsession and control within the artmaking process. Becca’s work is handmade and unrelentingly labor intensive, consistently fueled by a compulsive need for repetition and reverence. Through endurance-based processes she repeats stereotypical feminine gestures, defying the intended industrial function of her materials.

Using steel wire instead of conventional fibers, Barolli subverts textiles as a medium and pushes the range of expectations that are normally associated with both hard and soft materials; this acknowledges the strength in what is often considered women’s work, as well as the vulnerability in what is commonly associated with masculinity and industrialization.

www.beccabarolli.com

Project Space

Eric Kunsman, Thou Art…Will Give…

An exhibition of photographs,Thou Art...Will Give...documents the Eastern State Penitentiary, a former prison in Philadelphia, PA. Through this body ofphotographs Eric Kunsman captures the atmosphere experienced by the prisoners during the extended period when the penitentiary was active, in part depicted by photographs of entries from the Warden’s logbooks from the 1800s.

Currently, Kunsman is a photographer and book artist based in Rochester, New York. He works at the Rochester Institute of Technology as a Lecturer for the Visual Communications Studies Department at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and is an adjunct professor for the School of Photographic School of Arts and Sciences.

www.erickunsman.com

Annex

Dane Singh, Monsters and Nightmares

Exploring a variety of emotional states, Dane Singh presents a series of figurative drawings depicting ambiguous bodies in anguish. Dark psychological conditions of being and an inner sense of turmoil become manifest through kinetic human forms.Singh relies upon an extensive knowledge of formal technique through his use of materials such as charcoal and paint on a variety of surfaces 

This is the 6th year of Gallery Route Ones Fellowship Program. Becca Barroli and Dane Singh are our current Fellows.  Our Emerging Fellow, Dane Singh was chosen as outstanding artist by Mills College upon his graduation. He works as a bartender and you will  find him at Gallery Route one openings doing just that. Diana Marto our president oversees the Fellowship program. unfortunately he lives in Windsor.

GRO Fellowship for Young Artists program whereby one or Two artists are selected from the Greater Bay Area to be contributing members for eighteen months. Towards the end of their tenure the Artists are given solo shows in the Center Gallery or in the Annex Gallery. The aim of the program is to attract a younger demographic and to encourage younger artists to join.  

 We are now looking for the next set of Fellows. You may apply on-line at www.galleryrouteone.org/call-to-artists or www.submittable.com.