On Thursday April 5, 2018, Ringling Underground and Artist Liaison Ender Wilde present:
Unraveled, a Ringling Museum Courtyard exhibition of three local artists who examine the physical representation of emotions. Including poetics of space, hyper-realized imagery, and confrontational design. Filtering through intimacies, the psychological form and the taboo, these three emerging artist offer subtle conversations in contrast to the exterior persona. Contemporary representations of self are often allusions to a single aspect of an individual, instead these artists dismantle the body to identify intrapersonal dilemmas while maintaining a clean and concise aesthetic.
Ava Zelkowitz is an artist and writer who mergers the poetics of text with installation. Her work evokes latent emotional states and reactions as signs to be confronted as disruptions of environment. Ava’s work is commanding and soft. As the individual fabrics or letters flow in the breeze or fall on the landscape the audience is immediately elsewhere. Each word, letter, or image evokes the personal intimacies from a dreamscape, leaving the audience lost in thought.
Sarah Grace Bradicich is a print-maker, painter, and textiles artist exploring ideas and issues of femininity through a historical and anthropological perspective. Her work is clean, crisp and hyper feminine. Her explorations of the female body through sugar-coated contraceptives demonstrates a keen eye for both design and play. Sarah’s work is meant to be alluring and unsettling, focusing on high energy colors and tactile objects, she sugar coats the immediacy of self-harm associated with birth control and contraceptives.
Briana Nieves is a religious studies major who utilizes photography and film-making to identify the significance of both the mother and the eroticism in contemporary catholicism. Working with women of color, Bree stretches the rules of traditional iconography and familial relationships. Incorporating images of both family members and fellow bodies of color, Briana opens a conversation about the mother figure and the divine body.