Exhibitions
NOVEMBER 2011
MONICA AIELLO & TYLER AIELLO
Galileo's Garden - on display at RISING starting November 11. --OPENING RECEPTION--Friday 11/11, 6p-9:30p
RISING Gallery proudly presents Denver based husband and wife artists Tyler & Monica Aiello and their conjoined solo shows collectively titled “Galileo’s Garden”. This show marks the Aiello’s first solo exhibition in Texas.
After recently showing works in Jackson, WY and Denver, CO, the Aiello’s are bringing their current bodies of work to Dallas, Texas at RISING gallery. During the past several years, the Aiellos’ careers have expanded nationally and they have been engaged in numerous artistic and outreach pursuits - including museum and gallery exhibitions, public and corporate art commissions, residencies and educational programming.
Painter Monica Petty Aiello is known for her intriguing, mixed-media works on panel that fuse her love of craft and content. Monica has spent several years fostering relationships with the NASA community and often consults with noted planetary scientists in the development of her geologically-inspired works. This dialog has greatly enriched her process, allowing her to develop innovative painting techniques to interpret planetary surfaces. After extensive research, she creates her lush, glassy pieces by meticulously layering acrylic, varnish, ink and fiber like strata to emulate the geomorphology of the planets and moons within our Solar System.
Tyler Aiello’s elegant sculpture is also widely shown and collected across the country. He draws inspiration from mathematics, biology, botany and chemistry - creating sensual, biomorphic forms out of industrial materials such as steel, wood, and light. He is known for his meticulous craftsmanship, laborious process and attention to detail - often building his own tools to create his work. The series at RISING investigates microbiological, botanical and oceanic life forms. His work relates so well to his wife’s, providing ample context regarding the nature of science, art, and commonality of forms found throughout the universe. RISING looks forward to showcasing Tyler’s continuation of the series that was so successfully unveiled at Space Gallery earlier in the year.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2011
BONNY LEIBOWITZ
Surface Tension - on display at RISING from Sep 30 - Nov 5. --OPENING RECEPTION--Friday 9/30, 6p-9p
RISING Gallery is proud to present “Surface Tension”, an exhibition by Dallas based artist, Bonny Leibowitz.
“Surface Tension; an evolution revealed” is the term Bonny uses to describe both the physical structure she creates and the conceptual message within. Her pieces, inspired by personal experiences and observations considering choices; their consequences and cascading effects directly relates to her technical process allowing materials speak to her as she moves through the work engaging in it’s internal life allowing us to see glimpses of elements as they emerge and reveal new realities. She says “My work concerns itself with moments in our lives that effect change and create new realities”.
These new works utilize atmospheric, translucent layers of pigment along with textural materials including encaustic wax, silk, graphite, string, fibers and wood, often accompanied by visually textural elements such as layered photography.
Liebowitz has produced multiple solo shows at galleries throughout the country including Palm Springs, Santa Fe and Hawaii. She has participated in national and international group shows in New York, Israel and Dallas including the 110 degrees exhibition at Cohn Drennan Contemporary in Dallas TX 2011. Her work is in the collection of The Arlington Museum of Art in Arlington, TX. Her work will also be featured in Tim Phelan’s “50 Contemporary Artists” book publication due out 2012.
Bonny maintains two working studios; The Bonny Studio, where she teaches oil and acrylic painting and workshops in composition and partners with Deanna Wood at The Encaustic Center, www.theencausticcenter.com, teaching encaustic wax painting techniques.
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