“Hovey Brock, Daniella Dooling, and Valerie Hegarty” at Catskill Art Space

CAS Press Release, Hovey Brock, Daniella Dooling, Valerie Hegarty

Nature’s Thought Palaces: Daniella Dooling and Mike Glier

Opening Sunday May 21, 2023

3-6PM

Nature’s Thought Palaces
Daniella Dooling – Sculpture
Mike Glier – Painting and Drawing

Human sensory perceptions – like all living entities are limited. Our particular sense organs receive only the information that has provided advantages for our species over evolutionary timescales. Given how little of other species umwelts we can comprehend, if we are curious about other realities we can try to expand our experience by watching behaviors, reading science texts and attempting to fill in the blanks intellectually. If we are lucky to live with animals we can let them set our agendas and see what attracts them to linger. But even as we try to compensate by reading and studying, pretending actual comprehension remains at best an enjoyable folly, our desires and the way we fill in the blanks revealing much about our sense organs and thoughts, desires and imaginations as humans, building marvelous thought palaces around our limitations.

Daniella Dooling in her sculptures and Mike Glier in his paintings and drawings regard nature at one level – birds, bears and bobcats fill the gallery space. Yet on another profound level they are considering the timeless human desire to get beyond our species based limitations and expand our consciousness through meditating on the lives and experiences of the non human beings with whom we are lucky to share a planet.

 

The Queen of Spades…and other stories

Bienvenu Steinberg & Partner

THE QUEEN OF SPADES… AND OTHER STORIES
January 13 – February 26, 2022

The Queen of Spades

First published in 1833, Alexander Pushkin’s enigmatic The Queen of Spades is one of the major classics of Russian literature. It has been the inspiration of operas, films and exhaustive critical study. Less known, and sometimes intentionally obscured, is the history of Pushkin’s African ancestry. Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Pushkin’s maternal great grandfather, rose out of slavery to become a general in Tsar Peter the Great’s armies.

Commissioned by Eminence Grise Editions, three outstanding artists, Derrick Adams, Outtara Watts and Fred Wilson have entered personal responses into the dialogue generated by their fascination with Pushkin and the story. Derrick Adams’ works pay tribute to the two female characters, Countess N and her lady in waiting. In Fred Wilson’s suite of three images the black spade emerges to overwhelm and obscure depictions of a courtly lady and gentleman. Echoing Fyodor Dostoevsky’s statement that Pushkin’s tale represents “the pinnacle of the art of the fantastic,” Ouattara Watts has created two hallucinatory visions.

And other stories

Also included in the exhibition are recent Eminence Grise editions that hint at narratives that are never made fully explicit. Deborah Brown’s Death Maiden, depicting a naked canoeist and her dog paddling on a lake in a forbidding forest, evokes a haunted journey. Editioned in aquatint and chine-collé, each color variant engenders a chromatic series of emotional responses. Using a recently invented digital technology, Daniella Dooling’s assemblages of abandoned surgical masks poses questions about the fate of both the individuals who once wore them and about the anxieties of our pandemic dominated culture. Sara Jimenez’s monumental Radiating from a dark cloud…, is a montage of various photographs from American colonial texts about the Philippines, inspired by staged portraits by American and European photographers of the Filipinx population during the early 1900s.

http://www.bienvenusteinbergandpartner.com/exhibitions/the-queen-of-spades-and-other-stories

The Secret Life of Objects at Magenta Plains

Curated by Barbara Ess and organized by Peggy Ahwesh

September 7-October 9, 2021

https://magentaplains.com/exhibitions

Material Matters

at Seager/Gallery in Mill Valley, California on view March 3-31, 2020.  Artists include Robert Adams, Dean Allison, Gale Antokal, Adrian Arleo, Kay Bradner, Joe Brubaker, Lia Cook, Stephen Paul Day, Daniella Dooling, Jane Hambleton, Michael Janis, Lisa Kokin, Dana Lynn Louis, Jann Nunn, Emily Payne, Sibylle Peretti, Ross Richmond, Jane Rosen, Liz Steketee, Susan Stover, Tim Tate, Jessica Williams and Aggie Zed.

 

 

Four-D Projects

Four-D Projects: Issue 2 at the Church Troy

Opening August 25th, 6:00-9:00

On view August 25th-September 9th, 2018