01 – 30 NOVEMBER
Free + Open to the Public during all events + by appointment - email: info@rhizomedc.org
SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER :: 10:00 am - 12 noon
CARDBOARD CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP
details + rsvp forthcoming
SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER :: 12:15 pm - 2:15 pm
meet the artists
A pupil of René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur is credited with inventing cardboard in France in 1751 to reinforce playing cards. The term "cardboard" has been used since at least 1848, when Anne Brontë mentioned it in her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Cardboard may refer to a variety of heavy paper-like materials, including card stock, corrugated fiberboard, and paperboard.
Creative use of cardboard allowed artists to repurpose materials that would have otherwise gone to waste (but now are readily recyclable); running from an abundant canvas for Outsider/Folk artists to the high-concept contemporary constructions of Robert Rauschenberg’s Cardbird and Cardboards series. His Cardboards are wall reliefs made from found cardboard boxes that have been cut, stapled, bent, and combined by the artist but retain their original history through stains, dents, and tears, in addition to inherent color and labeling.
This exhibit presents three local artists who incorporate a variety of cardboard materials among their visual resources.
CHRISTIAN TRIBASTONE
Combining such discarded found materials with more traditional mediums, Tribastone creates images of the urban landscape. By treating cast-off materials with heightened care usually reserved for more precious objects, his work comments on the shifting nature of both the objects themselves and the shared spaces in which we reside.
www.instagram.com/3bastone/
MEI MEI CHANG
As an artist, I’ve always been drawn into the depth and the mysterious side of the psyche. This is the source of my art, and I can only express it in a language that transcends words.
Through my work, I have always translated the topographical maps of the mind onto multilayered and patterned surfaces. There are connections between internal symbols and connections that stretch out to the external. I believe that there is as much to uncover beneath the surface as to discover on the surface. Our minds occupy a space between the conscious and the subconscious; my work encompasses what is beneath the awareness of consciousness and beyond the passive knowing of subconsciousness and brings it to life.
Another aspect of the human mind that I explore is its freedom from the boundaries of macro and micro scales and its power of infinitesimal infinitude. My work is a place for the mind to move without limits, from the work down through layers of ever more granular complexity.
www.instagram.com/meimeichang_art/
JS ADAMS
Continually enamored with recreating/deconstructing public disasters and atrocities, Adams resurrects his CAUTIONARY TALES #4: HERE'S A SONG ABOUT CARDBOARD AIRPLANES installation (2021) to reimagine the destruction of Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau in Hannover during an October 1943 British air raid, MERZBÔRD: 30 SECONDS OVER HANNOVER. Twocardboard-influenced audio works will also be available for download
www.instagram.com/blkwbear
www.artbear.com