Upcoming at Gallery 444 PTown
Nov 4 Wed Rich Fedorchak & artists, Returning Artist at Gallery 444 PTown
Opening on Friday night.
Rich Fedorchak – Collage and Assemblage
and Artist Friends
About Rich Fedorchak: After a 35 year career as a registered nurse working primarily in pediatric critical care and pediatric hematology/oncology, I am now retired and devoting most of my time to my artistic pursuits, which I have been active in since the mid-1970’s. I produce work in collage and assemblage, and experimental cinema. Recently I had a solo exhibit of my work at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH. My films have been screened at various juried festivals in the US and Canada including The 8Fest, the Winnepeg Underground Film Festival, the Montreal Underground Film Festival, and the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival.
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Dec 9 Wed Alexandra Thompson, Returning Artist at Gallery 444 PTown
Opening on Friday night.
About the Artist
I think a lot about non-human perspectives, the buckling of space and narrative time, the interface between human infrastructure and nature. I grew up on a farm in Illinois where I was often outside on my own. In paint I try to muscularly inhabit other things, to create worlds of sometimes disparate or dreamlike pieces tethered to the chaotic logic of this one.
The term ‘environment’ can imply a disassociation between us and what we call wild or natural. I try to work from a place that challenges this conceit. I’m interested in shintoism and the old connections of religions to nature. Maybe the things I make are bits of spirit, or icons — not of beings but of interconnections.
Many of my recent paintings are un-stretched. Drawn to the flux of boundaries and the uncertainty of wholes, I play with the shift between a thing, a backdrop, and a window. I am interested in capturing the feeling of a glimpse, or the flickering coexistence of disparate outcomes, as in my spin series and some of my diptychs. Sometimes my pieces seem to me like when someone finds the image of a saint in a piece of toast. Painting can feel like the reverse of that — a kind of hunting for a corporeal and flawed sublime; serious but also funny.
When I am not painting I work as a co-manager for my family’s farm, and at times as a part-time journalist focused on science and culture. I currently live in Idaho and Cape Cod. Although I love people I have prosopagnosia (face-blindness), and I believe the fondness coupled with the anonymity also informs my work.
Contact:
athomp13@gmail.com
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Rich Fedorchak & artists, Returning Artist at Gallery 444 PTown
Opening on Friday night.
Rich Fedorchak – Collage and Assemblage
and Artist Friends
About Rich Fedorchak: After a 35 year career as a registered nurse working primarily in pediatric critical care and pediatric hematology/oncology, I am now retired and devoting most of my time to my artistic pursuits, which I have been active in since the mid-1970’s. I produce work in collage and assemblage, and experimental cinema. Recently I had a solo exhibit of my work at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH. My films have been screened at various juried festivals in the US and Canada including The 8Fest, the Winnepeg Underground Film Festival, the Montreal Underground Film Festival, and the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival.
Select any image to view larger.
Alexandra Thompson, Returning Artist at Gallery 444 PTown
Opening on Friday night.
About the Artist
I think a lot about non-human perspectives, the buckling of space and narrative time, the interface between human infrastructure and nature. I grew up on a farm in Illinois where I was often outside on my own. In paint I try to muscularly inhabit other things, to create worlds of sometimes disparate or dreamlike pieces tethered to the chaotic logic of this one.
The term ‘environment’ can imply a disassociation between us and what we call wild or natural. I try to work from a place that challenges this conceit. I’m interested in shintoism and the old connections of religions to nature. Maybe the things I make are bits of spirit, or icons — not of beings but of interconnections.
Many of my recent paintings are un-stretched. Drawn to the flux of boundaries and the uncertainty of wholes, I play with the shift between a thing, a backdrop, and a window. I am interested in capturing the feeling of a glimpse, or the flickering coexistence of disparate outcomes, as in my spin series and some of my diptychs. Sometimes my pieces seem to me like when someone finds the image of a saint in a piece of toast. Painting can feel like the reverse of that — a kind of hunting for a corporeal and flawed sublime; serious but also funny.
When I am not painting I work as a co-manager for my family’s farm, and at times as a part-time journalist focused on science and culture. I currently live in Idaho and Cape Cod. Although I love people I have prosopagnosia (face-blindness), and I believe the fondness coupled with the anonymity also informs my work.
Contact:
athomp13@gmail.com
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