Duo Exhibition: DAN SCHIMMEL — Tape & Paint, ANN TARANTINO — Recent Works
Posted on: Thursday, May 26th, 2011
I.City | 72" x 48" | tape, mixed media on panel | 2010
Dan Schimmel
Tape & Paint
Prink in Process | 72" x 60" | Ink and acrylic on canvas | 2011
Ann Tarantino
Recent Works
DAN SCHIMMEL — Tape & Paint
ANN TARANTINO — Recent Works
June 3 – July 9, 2011
Artist Reception: June 4, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
First Friday: June 3 and July 1, 6 – 8:30 pm
LGTripp Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by artists Dan Schimmel and Ann Tarantino. The line is one of the basic elements of a work of art. It helps to construct and define the object the artist seeks to create. In this new exhibition, Dan Schimmel and Ann Tarantino utilize line, the crisp and the fluid, to architect and invent spaces and systems of this world and of another.
Dan Schimmel’s imagery explodes in energetic lines and sharp contrasting colors whose chaotic state belies their delicately structured engineering. A narrative unfolds instantly, like a flashbulb going off, as the eye catches a fleeting glimpse of an uncharted cosmic-cybernetic existence. He states, “The effect I want to achieve is one that has the viewer suspended in that moment following the path of their eye, discovering detailed bits of information and making connections in free-form fashion.†Included in this exhibition is his “tape paintings†series in which the tape is laid down to block off areas, using color and line to construct a three-dimensional architectural space. While the act of placing the tape may allude to a sense of methodical forethought, Schimmel does not approach a work with a preconceived direction; it is intuitive and fresh. Considering the vast potentials (and dangers) of technology, Schimmel’s works are a meditation on these divergent possibilities produced through a seemingly unsystematic yet complexly emergent combination of line, color and scale.
Born in Saint Louis in 1964, Dan Schimmel grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, where he lives today. He received a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from University of Iowa. From 2000-2009 Dan Schimmel directed the Esther Klein Gallery at the University City Science Center. In 2010 he co-founded and became the director of Breadboard, a hybrid program at the Science Center that explores emergent contemporary art trends and intersections between art, technology and science.
Ann Tarantino’s delicate and fluid lines flow across the surface in a web-like fashion. Works on paper and canvas reveal basic, yet intricate, systems of line. A system/web is usually an over saturation of layers and complicated interconnections. In Tarantino’s work, the vast untouched spaces reveal the possibility for infinite expansion and also draw complete focus to the simple lines branching off from the nucleus. Propelling the paint by either blowing through a straw or using an air compressor, colors and lines have the illusion of weightlessly traveling across the surface. “These paintings speak to infinite growth and replication, the experience of being alive, the interconnectedness of humans with their environments and each other, and travels both real and imaginary,†adds Tarantino.
Ann Tarantino earned an MFA in Painting at Penn State University and a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. She has exhibited her wall drawings, works on paper and paintings nationally and internationally. The Washington Post hailed a recent exhibition at Curator’s Office, a collaboration with Kate McGraw, “one of the fall’s strongest shows”. Tarantino is Instructor at The Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Arts and School of Landscape Architecture, University Park, PA.