On Friday, April 6th, from 5 -7pm, the Rehoboth Art League (RAL) will host an opening reception for three new exhibitions: “Putting it Two-Gether: Assemblage & Collage,” with works by local artists and RAL members Lee Wayne Mills and Rose Minetti; “Year One at the Rehoboth Art League,” with works by Baltimore-based artist Iria Chloe, and a juried exhibition entitled “Abstractions,” by members of the Coastal Camera Club.
“Putting it Two-Gether: Assemblage & Collage,” will be held in the Tubbs Gallery. Both artists Lee Wayne Mills and Rose Minetti have a long history of including collage elements as part of their aesthetic process. In this exhibition they will expand on that history by venturing into multi-dimensional assemblage – and even installation-type works. Each artist, having separately experienced a ‘downsizing’ mode, has revisited and reclaimed earlier works in the creation of new pieces that celebrate ‘past and present’ – and the continuing nature of process itself. On Saturday, April 21, beginning at 2 pm, both artists will present a Gallery Talk when they will discuss their collaborative process and inspirations of their exhibition.
Lee Wayne Mills graduated with Honors in Art from Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin and has been an artist and art administrator ever since – with stints as Exhibition Director at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis, MD, Assistant Director of Montpelier Cultural Art Center in Laurel, MD, and Curator of the Dadian Gallery at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. He has also served as interim Executive Director of the Rehoboth Art League.
Rose Minetti has summered in Lewes, Delaware since 2004 and became a full-time resident in 2017. She was born in New York City and lived in Arizona for 33 years. She earned a Master of Arts from Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ and a Bachelor of Arts, from the Douglass/ Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers the State University, New Brunswick, NJ.
“Year One at the Rehoboth Art League,” will be held in the Ventures Gallery. Artist Iria Chloe maintains an interdisciplinary studio practice grounded in both traditional and alternative approaches to painting. Her body of work produced over the last seven years has been heavily reliant on the integration of digital print and web-based media and the collection of data through self-tracking. She attempts to identify patterns and analyze the circumstantial information surrounding each subject.
In the “Year One” series, she visualizes data collected throughout her daughter’s first year of life: the time of each nursing session, pumping session, nightly sleep and morning wake-up time, nap, diaper, bath, bottle, and solid food acceptance. Through this body of work, she aims to make the invisible labor of parenthood visible by bringing attention to the amount of time that goes into raising a child, especially when that child is a newborn. Each piece can be read as a calendar with each line representing twenty-four hours in a day.
Ms. Chloe grew up outside of Richmond, Virginia. She attended McDaniel College in Westminster, MD before receiving an MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010.
Rounding out the exhibitions, in “Abstractions,” members of the Coastal Camera Club use shape, line, form, texture, and rhythm to create compositions that exist with a degree of independence from the real world. The juror for this exhibition was Harold Ross. Eight works were chosen from over fifty that were submitted for review.
All three exhibits will be on display through May 7. The Rehoboth Art League is located at 12 Dodds Lane, in Helopen Acres. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Sunday noon – 4:00 p.m. The gallery is closed on Mondays. The opening reception is free and open to the public, and is generously sponsored by Dogfish Head.
The Rehoboth Art League is a membership-based nonprofit arts organization dedicated to teaching, preserving and inspiring the arts in the region. For additional information on the Art League, its classes, events and exhibitions, visit the website at rehobothartleague.org or call 302.227.8408. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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