Solo(s) Project House Creative Spaces in Downtown Newark, NJ
CURRENT: ASHLI SISK
Solo(s) Speak: Q & A with ASHLI SISK
Thursday, April 19, 2012
7 – 10pm
Refreshments Served
Join Solo(s) Project House for an evening of Q & A with featured artist, Ashli Sisk. Her current solo exhibition, “BIG GAME” is on display from March 23, 2012 through May 17, 2012.
ABOUT: ASHLI SISK “BIG GAME
Solo(s) Project House presents Ashli Sisk: “Big Game” from March 23, 2012 – May 17, 2012.
Sisks brings to us a survey of fur, fantasy and the portrait of the beast. “Big Game” will introduce viewers to the ever-changing human perspective of a variety of animals. An animal in a dwindling population is branded a mascot and separated from the swarm of beasts. Slipping iinto extinction where it only exists in medium transforming then into the fantastical beast never alive- and unable to die, a Golem.
“Whether the animal is small or profoundly huge or weird looking, I endeavor to put these animals in a space that reflects the shifting human attitudes towards them- which meditates on the human implications of such attitudes as human animals reflect on nature changing, dying and extinguishing.”
The frames and artifacts that surround her paintings serve as part of the work. Within this context also discuss the idea of the museum, and the mortuary, as well as the history of painting. Frames have their own language, expressing time and quality, cost, art conservation, and prevailing attitudes about how art is seen depending on the time period.
“The Art Museum and The Natural History museum Collide- one part Taxonomy,and one part Wunderkammer in this exhibition, the questions I am asking is Is there a way to preserve something without changing it completely?Where does the human animal fit in the natural world? And what is the natural world?” -Ashli Sisk
Ashli Sisk is from Northern California, Where she attended San Francisco Art Institute. As recent transplant to the East Coast, she attends Montclair State University. She brings to her practice a background in Archeology and Cultural Anthropology, Animal Sciences and Biology, Gnosticism and Theatre, Magic and Divination.
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