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Recurrent
June
7
–
June 30, 2024
RECEPTION:
June 7, 2024
/
24-05
About the exhibition
Corley, Fitzgibbon, and Stankiewicz expand on the notion of recurrent and recurrence. Corley draws inspiration for her paintings and sculptures from her scuba diving experiences and underwater sea life. Fitzgibbon works more directly with electrical currents creating mesmerizing LED assemblages. Stankiewicz explores the charge of memory imbued in physical objects and environments.
Artist Talk
Denise Corley, Tom Fitzgibbon, and GG Stankiewicz
June 30, 2024
2–4pm
Join us at ArtUp for an exclusive artist talk featuring Denise Corley, Tom Fitzgibbon, and GG Stankiewicz. These distinguished artists will delve into their creative processes, discuss their careers in visual arts, and share the unique techniques and inspirations behind their works. In their current exhibition, Recurrent, Corley draws from her scuba diving adventures and the vibrant underwater world to create captivating paintings and sculptures. Fitzgibbon's LED assemblages harness the power of electrical currents, while Stankiewicz explores the evocative memories embedded in physical objects and environments. This event promises to provide deep insights into the concept of recurrence and offer a rare glimpse into the minds of three exceptional artists. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with contemporary art at its finest.
About the Artist
Denise
Corely
Tortured Artist Statement—a whole bunch of words that may resonate with my work.
Organic, curved, space, grids, crude, gritty, raw, primal, imperfect, skewed, torqued, screen, veil, mysterious, fe-male, waves, water, current, revolving, mesmerizing, tactile, intimate, revealing, unconscious, conjuring, religious, scientific, baffling, sacred, sexual, colorful, sharp, recycled, reused, illusions, circles, shapes, lines, assemblage, collage, abstract, dimensional, graphic, metaphoric, seeking, lively. Making art for me is like going up to the attic of your accumulated knowledge and experience and rummaging around, dusting off bits of your visual thoughts and reworking them. My work, my process is something of an improvisational interaction between myself and my materials and the results can be found in the words above. I let myself experiment which means fail. Working through failure is sort of like gold mining; there is an accumulation of slag until you find the vein. And the truth is the slag is the work and the gold.
Tom
Fitzgibbon
Tom Fitzgibbon has no artist statement because he is not an artist. He has not formally studied art history or the process of art. He is a poseur, a rapscallion, a scullery maid attempting to break into the art world, afraid that he will be found out at any moment. In the meantime he works with paint, wood, steel, LEDs, lasers, bulbs of various types and computers to make odd light based works. He loves Bill Jensen, Tinguely, Cornell, Burchfield, Sonnier, Corbet, Goya and Velázquez (who doesn't).
According to Mr. Fitzgibbon: "I just want to whittle duck decoys in the back".
GG
Stankiewicz
GG Stankiewicz grew up in Rhode Island and moved to New York City to pursue her art career. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, MA where she earned a combined degree, a Fine Arts and Bachelor of Science in Art Education. GG completed her art studies by achieving a Master of Fine Arts Degree at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. In addition to her art practice, she served as a high school art teacher for the New York City Department of Education. GG has co-founded artist-run organizations: SONYA (South Of the Navy Yard Artists, Brooklyn, NY) and WBA (West Branch Artists, Walton, NY). In June 2022, GG established her art studio in Delhi, New York and began exhibiting her work in the Catskill Region. GG Stankiewicz is the recipient of the 2024 Delaware County Individual Artist Grant, a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York Legislature and administered in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group. GG lives in Delaware County New York.
