SHADOW WORK
curated by AJ Rombach
part of A.P.E.'s Guest Curator program
David Aipperspach, Sundial (3), 36" x 40", oil on canvas, 2022.
SHADOW WORK
Curated by AJ Rombach
October 14 - November 6, 2022
Artists Reception: Friday, October 14: 5-8 pm (Arts Night Out)
Participating Artists:
David Aipperspach - www.davidaipperspach.com
Natessa Amin - www.natessa.com
River Kim - www.riverminjukim.com
Lena Schmid - www.schmidlena.com
Stephen Proski - www.stephenproski.com
SHADOW WORK examines painting's potential to trace the cognitive and unconscious thought of maker and viewer. What does a symbol communicate? How do paintings act as bridges between subjective and collective experience? How do art objects encapsulate ontological mystery? Natessa Amin and Lena Schmid’s abstracted work relies on systems of invented symbolism that become catalogs of dreams, events, energies and desires. River Kim bridges Amin and Schmid’s abstraction into an embodied expression of fur and latex, large enough to dress a monster. David Aipperspach illustrates the dilemma of embodiment, perception and subjectivity. Stephen Proski's oversized braille monument, and collection of playful yet darkly titled symbols, profoundly punctuates this dilemma in a gesture purposefully alienating. SHADOW WORK inherits its title from the psychoanalytical work of Carl Jung. Jung insisted that, "It is the essence of the symbol to contain both the rational and the irrational," (Jung, Liber Novus, 57,) SHADOW WORK aims to create an environment in which the unconscious be permitted to (consciously) surface.
AJ Rombach is an artist, educator and curator based in Massachusetts. AJ has an MFA from Boston University (2022) and a BFA from Boston University (2010.) AJ is a 2022 Walter Feldman Fellow. AJ is a founding member and former co-director of FJORD, an artist-run space in Philadelphia and has been included in solo and group exhibitions at SPACEUS, Boston; University City Arts League, Philadelphia; Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia; Satellite Art Fair, Miami; CSA Gallery, Philadelphia; and Rodger LaPelle Gallery, Philadelphia. AJ has helped curate exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, Miami + Boston and has painted murals in Costa Rica, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Santa Fe, and Minneapolis. AJ taught as a lead teacher at Acorn Gallery School of Art in Marblehead, MA. AJ now lives in Leeds, MA.
This exhibition is part of A.P.E.'s Guest Curator Program and is supported in part by a grant from the Art Angels, through the Community Foundation of Western Mass.
Curated by AJ Rombach
October 14 - November 6, 2022
Artists Reception: Friday, October 14: 5-8 pm (Arts Night Out)
Participating Artists:
David Aipperspach - www.davidaipperspach.com
Natessa Amin - www.natessa.com
River Kim - www.riverminjukim.com
Lena Schmid - www.schmidlena.com
Stephen Proski - www.stephenproski.com
SHADOW WORK examines painting's potential to trace the cognitive and unconscious thought of maker and viewer. What does a symbol communicate? How do paintings act as bridges between subjective and collective experience? How do art objects encapsulate ontological mystery? Natessa Amin and Lena Schmid’s abstracted work relies on systems of invented symbolism that become catalogs of dreams, events, energies and desires. River Kim bridges Amin and Schmid’s abstraction into an embodied expression of fur and latex, large enough to dress a monster. David Aipperspach illustrates the dilemma of embodiment, perception and subjectivity. Stephen Proski's oversized braille monument, and collection of playful yet darkly titled symbols, profoundly punctuates this dilemma in a gesture purposefully alienating. SHADOW WORK inherits its title from the psychoanalytical work of Carl Jung. Jung insisted that, "It is the essence of the symbol to contain both the rational and the irrational," (Jung, Liber Novus, 57,) SHADOW WORK aims to create an environment in which the unconscious be permitted to (consciously) surface.
AJ Rombach is an artist, educator and curator based in Massachusetts. AJ has an MFA from Boston University (2022) and a BFA from Boston University (2010.) AJ is a 2022 Walter Feldman Fellow. AJ is a founding member and former co-director of FJORD, an artist-run space in Philadelphia and has been included in solo and group exhibitions at SPACEUS, Boston; University City Arts League, Philadelphia; Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia; Satellite Art Fair, Miami; CSA Gallery, Philadelphia; and Rodger LaPelle Gallery, Philadelphia. AJ has helped curate exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, Miami + Boston and has painted murals in Costa Rica, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Santa Fe, and Minneapolis. AJ taught as a lead teacher at Acorn Gallery School of Art in Marblehead, MA. AJ now lives in Leeds, MA.
This exhibition is part of A.P.E.'s Guest Curator Program and is supported in part by a grant from the Art Angels, through the Community Foundation of Western Mass.
