September

This month, we welcome Victoria L. and Dylan Mulshine to The Shuckster space!

wizards is an installation of visual art by Victoria L. and sound collage by Dylan Mulshine. It features colorful fabric art in a pair of small exhibition spaces and sounds produced from a full-spectrum cave. Why do we do what we do? Because colors and noise have a power. Because growing up doesn't have to mean giving up. Because settling in doesn't have to mean settling down. Everything you need to learn about right living is found in Young Adult Fantasy novels.

Victoria L. is an artist and independent curator. She is inspired by the Gee's Bend Quilters Collective, Fort Thunder, and Sister Corita. She has shown her art at Space 1026 in Philadelphia, Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn, Open Space in Baltimore, On Reading Gallery in Nagoya, Japan and elsewhere. She co-founded a pop-up gallery in central Virginia called Thanky, where she curated exhibits and performances for one year. She has also curated exhibits at Trance Pop Gallery in Kyoto and the Hexagon Space in Baltimore and she participated in the first-ever Osaka Zine Fair in Japan this year.

Dylan Mulshine is an experimental musician who performs under the moniker Teen Dreams. He has shared the stage with Dustin Wong, DJ Dog Dick, Caribou, Gang Gang Dance, and many others.

More photos to come tomorrow - stay tuned!

August photos

Kristin Smith and Deirdre Davie
August 5, 2011

Above: Kristin Smith
Below: Deirdre Davie

Link to Deirdre and Kristin's artist statements: here

August

This month, we welcome Deirdre Davie and Kristin Smith to The Shuckster space!

Deirdre Davie's recent work includes photography, printmaking, installation, and performance pieces. She frequently exercises an ongoing investigation of found materials re-purposed for new expressions. This has included discarded household detritus, appropriated newspaper images, purloined office supplies, and dead animals supplied by her cats.

Deirdre worships at the temple of Robert Rauschenberg and his high priestess Sarah Sze. Like Kafka, Deirdre has a dull day job that pays the bills. 25% of profits from her sales go to the Fistule Foundation, an organization dedicated to restoring health and dignity to women injured in childbirth in underdeveloped countries. www.deirdredavie.com

Kristin Smith
I am based in Philadelphia and studied Printmaking at the College of William and Mary. This installation consists of watercolor and gouache paintings inspired by unfamiliar plants and animals as well as nineteenth-century infographs and botanical drawings.

The pieces in this installation illustrate surreal environments and unusual vegetation, grounded in the natural world. I like that the little nook provides a frame that allows the four pieces to function as one and be viewed in a more personal space. www.thekristinsmith.blogspot.com

More photos to come!