Surfacing: Beyond the Narrative

BOSTON, MA – Fountain Street gallery opens its March exhibition, Surfacing: Beyond the Narrative, featuring the work of mixed media artists Chelsea Revelle and Kathline Carr. The show represents a diverse body of work from each artist, and pushes the boundaries of how surfaces can be manipulated and the discarded reconstructed.

In Surfacing: Beyond the Narrative, each artist explores a unique combination of materials and processes to rediscover real and imagined spaces. Viewers get lost in the layers and excavation of materials that resemble memories or narratives of the untold.

Revelle’s imagery of dollhouse interiors, fractured furniture, and the coexistence of subdued organic matter investigates themes of constraint. Overlaid with modest portraits: figures disappear into wallpapered backgrounds or behind disembodied dollhouse furniture that hide their identity while a simultaneous sense of isolation and exclusion emerges. Through the delicate and ethereal domestic art of embroidery and the destructive process of assemblage, these pieces lend space to inadvertent acts of subjugation that evokes reflection of the home, identity and the past.

Carr is working with imagery that uses landscape as a point of entry to explore isolated forms, textures and surfaces. The double meaning of surfacing comes into play in these works, as sometimes the forms appear to be rising out of darkness, or aquatic realms; but often her work is about the surface itself, constructed from relentless material exploration and iteration, using materials such as fabric, powdered graphite, and collage in addition to paint. Her monotypes and drawings are part of her iterative process, and some will be included in this exhibition.

Surfacing: Beyond the Narrative will run from February 28 through April 1, 2018. The Gallery is located at 460c Harrison Ave. #2, Boston, MA and is open Wednesday through Sunday from 12 to 6pm, or by appointment.

Schedule of events:

First Friday Reception – March 2, 2018 6:00-8:00pm

Artist Talk and Beer Tasting with RiverWalk Brewing Co: Saturday March 24, 2018 6:00-8:00pm