Sublime

Press Release (12/28/13)                   

KENISE BARNES FINE ART

1947 PALMER
AVENUE

LARCHMONT, NY 10538

SUBLIME

Featuring artists: David Licata, Jessica McCambly, and Suzan Shutan

On January 18, Kenise Barnes Fine Art will open a new

exhibition of artwork that is, in a word: Sublime.  The exhibition features the work of three

contemporary artists whose art will transform the gallery space and promises to

delight audiences: blue, green, and clear glass chain maille will cascade down

the gallery walls and puddle on the floor; a deeply black tar paper sculpture will

loop and meander overhead and across the white walls in an immense,

high-contrast three-dimensional drawing; on another wall pristine white paper

surrounds and focuses the viewer’s gaze on small craters of paint surrounded by

thousands of gleaming, miniature glass shards. The work in this exhibition represent

the best of what Kenise Barnes Fine Art has built a reputation on for almost

two decades. 

David Licata works with a gas torch to melt glass rods, once in a molten

state, the glass can be bent and looped in complex ways.  Licata bends and joins fine borosilicate glass into links ranging

from half and inch to three inches that become large curtains of chain maille,

a textile pattern that has fascinated the artist for a decade.   Each

glass sculpture in the show is made a different stitch as the patterns of chain

maille vary by country and family.  The

delicacy of glass belies ideas of protection and strength inherent in

traditional chain maille that is for armor.

Licata earned a MFA from

Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and a BA from SUNY New Paltz.  The artist lives and works in Westchester

County.  He is an educator and is

nationally known for his glass torch work sculptures, jewelry and workshops.

Jessica McCambly describes her process as being a somewhat surgical.   The artist meticulously builds her paintings

by combining tiny dots of paint, no bigger than a pinhead, with mica and shards

of glass. The elements are individually placed on the surface using an X-acto

knife and a toothpick to manipulate them into a complex yet minimal

composition.

Originally

from Massachusetts, McCambly lives and works in San Diego, CA.  She earned

a MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas, College of

Visual Arts and Design.  Her work has been exhibited in The Museum of

Contemporary Art San Diego, CA, The Children's Museum in San Diego, CA, The

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, The Dallas Museum of Art, TX, and The Dallas

Contemporary, TX.

Installation

artist Suzan Shutan has created a

painstakingly handcrafted, large, and meandering sculpture for the exhibit.

Using an unlikely industrial material, Shutan achieves a complex matrix of

forms.  With roofing tarpaper the artist

cuts, loops, and glues the densely black material to create a delicate looking

network of shapes that evoke a drawn line in space. Paper chains arch over the

viewer’s head, creating a lacy environment, climb down the wall, and culminate

on the floor in patterns of light and shadows.

Shutan

earned a BFA in Painting and Drawing from California Institute of the Arts and

a MFA in Installation from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts,

NJ.  She has lived and worked in Germany,

France, and New York City. Shutan has taught at Rhode Island School of

Design, Quinnipiac University, CT, and University of Omaha, NE and currently

teaches Sculpture at Housatonic Community College, Hartford, CT.  Her work

has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including Bank of America

Headquarters, NC and internationally in Germany, France, Sweden, Poland,

Argentina, Russia, Canada and Colombia.

Gallery hours:

Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 5:30

and evenings by appointment. 

Contact information:

Please contact our staff

for further information, images of artwork, or to arrange a preview of the

exhibition. 

In gallery II Kenise Barnes Fine Art will present

new work from the studios of our other talented gallery artists. 

In addition to our expanded

exhibition spaces, we now have an extensive lower level inventory warehouse

that includes a private presentation room.

In-home and in-office

consultations are complimentary.