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About the Exhibition
Opening reception and artist talks: Thursday, June 3, 5 -
7 pm
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) is pleased
to present The Alumni Solo Series exhibitions featuring two
artists who are alumni of CFEVA’s Career Development
Program: Serena Perrone and Shalya Marsh. Serena Perrone will
present By Land, By Sea and Shalya Marsh will present
Plurality: Codes and Ciphers.
Serena Perrone brings a sense of quiet discomfort
and reflective reverie to her prints and drawings on view
in By Land By Sea. Large-scale woodcuts with silverpoint
and goldpoint drawing make up the series entitled “In
the Realm of Reverie I-VII”, 2004-2008. Using woodcut,
etching, and drawing, Perrone incorporates her interest in
natural history and the culture of freaks and sideshows into
ornate landscapes. Her proscenium-like pieces are the imaginative
stage upon which her figures enact hidden emotional metamorphoses
and explore familiar and foreign territories. Her work reflects
her longing for (and break from) the familiar, home, and both
the near and distant past. Also included in this exhibition
are seven pieces that make up the series “Fictive Homelands”,
completed in 2009, as well as the first piece in the newest
series, “Through the Periscope”, which introduces
one’s struggle with expectations, autonomy, and desire.
Shalya Marsh’s work in Plurality:
Codes and Ciphers expresses the intrinsic limitation
that language places on communication, through the use of
decipherable codes and symbols. Marsh’s hand built ceramic
sculptures reference illuminated manuscripts, ancient cuneiforms,
and primitive accounting systems known as tokens. These archaic
systems of recording information are juxtaposed with modern
codes and ciphers such as binary, substitution, and Morse.
The viewer is invited to literally decode the piece’s
nonsensical pangrams and whimsical definitions.
Originally from St. Louis, Serena Perrone is a printmaker
based in Philadelphia. She received an MFA in Printmaking
from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006, and a BFA
in Painting, BA in Art History and BA in French from Southern
Illinois University Carbondale in 2003. She completed a two-year
fellowship with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in
Philadelphia in 2009, and has been a Philagrafika Invitational
Portfolio Artist. Her solo exhibitions include the Rhode Island
School of Design in 2008 and the Abington Art Center in 2009.
Other exhibitions and events of note include the Marque/Remarque
Southern Graphics Council Invitational Portfolio, exhibits
in conjunction with Philagrafika 2010 at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, Serpahin Gallery, Little Berlin and
the Free Library of Philadelphia; the Editions/Artists Book
Fair in Chelsea New York, and exhibitions at Smith College,
the Maryland Art Place, the Delaware Center for the Contemporary
Arts, Vox Populi Gallery, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts,
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the International Print Center
New York, The Print Center, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago,
and the Brand Library in California. Her work resides in numerous
collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Smith College Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Museum of Art, and The Free Library of Philadelphia. In 2010,
Perrone will be an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio
Center and at All Along Press in St. Louis. Her work is represented
by Cade Tompkins Editions.
Shalya Marsh resides in Lancaster, PA and attended the State
University of New York at New Paltz for a BFA in Ceramics.
She currently teaches ceramics at the Lancaster Museum of
Art, and the La Academia Partnership Charter School. Her work
has been exhibited regionally and nationally including exhibitions
at the Rose Lehrman Art Gallery (Harrisburg, PA), MICA’s
Fox Gallery (Baltimore, MD), and the Delaware Center for Contemporary
Arts (Wilmington, DE). Marsh was also a Career Development
Program Fellow at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists.
About the Center
The Center For Emerging Visual Artists, formerly Creative
Artists Network, was founded in 1984 by Felicity R. "Bebe"
Benoliel to encourage the career development of emerging visual
artists. Since then, the organization has worked steadily
harder to provide the support essential to talented individuals
building careers in the visual arts. The Center dedicates
itself to making art careers viable for those who choose them,
helping emerging artists reach their audiences, and promoting
interest and understanding of emerging visual art among citizens
of the community. |
