The Gilded Girls
Staff Exhibition | Suzy McGrane-Hop, Lauren Tucci & Linda Ge
- Exhibit Dates: July 2- August 14, 2021
- Artist Reception & 10 Year Anniversary Party: July 16th, 5:00-7:30pm
Exhibit Info & Statement
The Gilded Girls
July 2 - August 14, 2021
Staff Exhibition
Suzy McGrane-Hop, Lauren Tucci, & Linda Ge
Staff Exhibition
Suzy McGrane-Hop, Lauren Tucci, & Linda Ge
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To commemorate Gilded Pear’s 10th anniversary, the summer exhibition will be showcasing artworks made by gallery staff artists! Gilded Pear Gallery is thrilled be able to celebrate in person after gatherings had come to a halt due to the pandemic. Join in on the fun for the Party and Reception, July 16th, 5:00-7:30pm CST. Please RSVP!
The exhibit features drawings, paintings, and sculptures by Linda Ge, Suzy McGrane-Hop and Lauren Tucci. While the title of the exhibit references the popular TV show “The Golden Girls” the artworks on display pay little homage to the sitcom giant (though the ‘Girls’ themselves unite the artists). Suzy McGrane-Hop, [owner] creates large, textural, moody abstract paintings for this exhibit. She says of the work, “I am inspired by colors in nature; it could be a spectacular sunset or storm clouds or just a muted gray sort of day. These new pieces are exploring thinly painted areas with soft muted colors and more relaxed brushwork, and contrasting areas of more intense colors and more active, “painterly” brushstrokes. My works borrow elements inspired by abstract expressionist as well as color field artists.” Charcoal drawings and abstract sculptures from Linda Ge [gallery assistant and inventory manager] are achromatic observations of our basic anatomy echoed in nature: “I extract forms from my drawings and flesh them out in clay, firmly grounding their existence in our reality; the ceramic sculptures and vessels in turn act as three-dimensional canvases. In this sense, my drawings and ceramic pieces are extensions of one another rather than separate entities.” Lauren Tucci [gallery director] investigates our everyday interactions in the form of household décor, furniture, and other objects. Colorful and monochrome ceramic sculptures and original prints narrate interpersonal conflicts and conditions with dark humor. “I love a film with fabulous set design. If you watch the movie without sound/captions or actors, you would be able to follow the tone of the story with just lighting and paying mind to the objects in scene. The work I create personifies these background characters, depicting, in a bizarre way, our human existence with one another.” |
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Linda Ge
Biography Linda Ge was born in Fort Collins, Colorado but has lived most of her life in Iowa. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Iowa in 2012, and relocated to Colorado in 2014 to pursue a two-year post-baccalaureate program in Ceramics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She moved back to Iowa in 2016 for a residency at the Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio. Linda currently works as the Gallery Assistant and Inventory Manager at the Gilded Pear Gallery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Statement The sculptures and drawings I create are vague reflections of what we are familiar with. An essential subject I focus on is the human body. The body not only houses multiple micro- and macrocosms, but it in itself serves as a singular component in the complex structures of our world. By observing the anatomy and similar forms echoed in nature, I reduce these elements down to their most basic components, then reconstruct them back together. The results are often whimsical and uncanny. My aim is to blur the lines between two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces. I extract forms from my drawings and flesh them out in clay, firmly grounding their existence in our reality; the ceramic sculptures and vessels in turn act as three-dimensional canvases. In this sense, my drawings and ceramic pieces are extensions of one another rather than separate entities. As a whole, the processes I go through – extracting, deconstructing, and rebuilding – are ways for me to confront the things in life that fascinate me. Things that leave me confused and unsettled. Horrified and in awe. It is through confrontation with these elements that I am able to feel, not always and necessarily more comfortable, but more understanding of the peculiar. |
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