Stitched Topographies
Stitched Topographies
by Christine Gedeon
christinegedeon@gmail.com | www.christinegedeon.com
April 16 - May 9, 2010
chashama 461 Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street
New York, NY
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Avenues
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
Opening Reception: Friday, April 16, 6-9p
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays 4 - 7p
Fridays, Saturdays Sundays 1 – 6p
In "Stitched Topographies", Christine Gedeon creates works using a sewing machine, fabric and paint on raw canvas that are inspired by aerial view landscape drawings. She invents these "plots" that are neither true abstractions, nor landscapes but navigate between interpretative poles. With a limited palette and through an improvisational approach, these works are large in scale and hint to an unfamiliar impossible space, a space that allows viewers to detach and contemplate their relationship to the external world. Gedeon seeks to connect the dichotomy of the cold, analytical masculine subject with the appropriation of traditional feminine materials, adopting a sewing machine as a mechanically precise drawing tool.
Christine Gedeon was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in the U.S., and is based in New York City. She is currently an artist in the Bronx Museum, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM 30) program. Solo and Two-Person shows include: The Catskill Art Society, in Livingston Manor, NY; A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, where she was awarded an Emerging Artist's Fellowship in 2005-06; And/Or Gallery in Dallas, TX; and The New Art Center, in NYC. Group shows include: The dataa Fair Miami, Vertex List, WIlliamsburg, and A.I.R. Gallery, NYC. She received a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from SUNY New Paltz.
by Christine Gedeon
christinegedeon@gmail.com | www.christinegedeon.com
April 16 - May 9, 2010
chashama 461 Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street
New York, NY
(between Amsterdam & Morningside Avenues
Trains: 1/A/C/B/D to 125th Street station
Bus: #100, 101, 104, M60, Bx6 to 125th & Amsterdam)
Opening Reception: Friday, April 16, 6-9p
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays 4 - 7p
Fridays, Saturdays Sundays 1 – 6p
In "Stitched Topographies", Christine Gedeon creates works using a sewing machine, fabric and paint on raw canvas that are inspired by aerial view landscape drawings. She invents these "plots" that are neither true abstractions, nor landscapes but navigate between interpretative poles. With a limited palette and through an improvisational approach, these works are large in scale and hint to an unfamiliar impossible space, a space that allows viewers to detach and contemplate their relationship to the external world. Gedeon seeks to connect the dichotomy of the cold, analytical masculine subject with the appropriation of traditional feminine materials, adopting a sewing machine as a mechanically precise drawing tool.
Christine Gedeon was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in the U.S., and is based in New York City. She is currently an artist in the Bronx Museum, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM 30) program. Solo and Two-Person shows include: The Catskill Art Society, in Livingston Manor, NY; A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, where she was awarded an Emerging Artist's Fellowship in 2005-06; And/Or Gallery in Dallas, TX; and The New Art Center, in NYC. Group shows include: The dataa Fair Miami, Vertex List, WIlliamsburg, and A.I.R. Gallery, NYC. She received a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from SUNY New Paltz.
