LOOK ALIVE

MARKS FAMILY GALLERY SOUTH

4/26-4/29 Featured Artist: Jasmine Chamberlain

Jasmine Chamberlain explores the dimensionality of our internal emotional landscapes through her work with florals and sculptural installation. Employing a medium that is inherently ephemeral and in a constant state of transformation, Chamberlain probes our relationship to time, grief, and the cycles of life. With roots on the East End and in Los Angeles, she is inspired by the natural beauty and cycles of life in these diverse landscapes. She lives and works in Springs and owns and operates a floral design company, Floral Feeling, which offers custom floral design, interactive workshops, and event production. For Look Alive, Chamberlain is building a sculptural floral installation in her distinctive style, which she describes as “dainty drama.”

Look Alive is an evolving studio, gallery, and social space. This unique showcase highlights the thriving emergent creative community on the East End, featuring the works of Harris Allen, Kai Parcher-Charles, Mamoun Nukumanu, Kate Kavanaugh, Kiva Motnyk, and Jasmine Chamberlain, and organized by independent curator Ellie Duke. Utilizing video, sound, sculpture, textile, florals, and other media, each artist will transform the gallery into a collaborative workshop.

Artists will be on-site during the following weekends:

• March 29 – May 6: Harris Allen
• March 29 – April 1: Kai Parcher Charles
• April 5 – April 7: Mamoun Nukumanu
• April 12 – 15: Kate Kavanaugh
• April 19 – 21: Kiva Motnyk
• April 26 – 29: Jasmine Chamberlain

“There is a misconception that the most interesting art on the East End happened in decades past, or that young artists don’t (or can’t) live here anymore,” said curator Ellie Duke. “In fact, I am inspired constantly by the emerging generation of artists on the East End — their scrappiness, their expansiveness, their collaborative spirit. Look Alive was inspired by them, and by the desire to share some of their work and their practice with a broader audience. All of the artists in Look Alive are engaged with the community and landscape of this region — its light, flora and fauna, and inhabitants inspire their practices, which I hope visitors to Guild Hall will find moving and resonant.”

Video artist Harris Allen is on-site March 29th – May 6th, developing his series of “living images,” video sculptures that intimately capture narrative and essence through subtle movement. Existing between a still photograph and a film, these portraits are slowed down to allow the viewer to experience more than is available to the naked eye. The result is a deepened presence with the subject through the dilation of time, and a striking blend of stark minimalism and soft, organic form. Throughout Look Alive, Allen will be creating new works using this technique, including five new “living images” in collaboration with the other artists in the exhibition, which will be displayed alongside their contributions.

Each of the five other artists will be on-site for one weekend, building something in the space that will then stay there for the remainder of the exhibition. March 29th – March 31st, multidisciplinary artist Kai Parcher-Charles explores remixed narratives and the power of abstraction and chance to create a soundscape installation made in collaboration with the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council, as well as visitors to the gallery. April 5th – 7th, Mamoun Nukumanu engages his creative practice of “sacred play,” a symbiotic collaboration between artist and organic matter, building a structure using foraged plant material. April 12th – 14th, natural dye artist Kate Kavanaugh creates a unique silk textile in the gallery utilizing eco-printing techniques and invites visitors to participate in a sound-healing ritual. April 19th – 21st, Kiva Motnyk creates a hand-quilted, natural-dyed patchwork textile and leads a quilting and dye workshop incorporating her techniques and materials. April 26th – 28th, floral artist Jasmine Chamberlain explores the dimensions of emotional landscape through an immersive sculptural floral installation, creating an environment for visitors to engage with.