Reception: Friday, May 26, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Raydell Early
Faith Icecold
Alake Shilling
Maybe these three in their own way turn the world inside out.
The world of objects and ideas, shuffling about; constant friction. A kaleidoscope shatters the visual world and restitches it together in a complex symmetry of transpositions and refraction. It’s the world, but both more so, and less so: it becomes something new.
Raydell Early is an artist who has been working at Creative Growth in Oakland since 1981. Working line by line on paper, Early slowly builds up prismatic forms, luminescent quadrilaterals that begin to create space and form.
Faith Icecold makes abstract works out of very real things: beads, clay, earth, gems, fabric, leather, paper, water and found objects. Icecold’s works break apart classic forms of craftsmanship in various mediums to forge radical departures and remixes
Alake Shilling’s works animate a cast of recurring characters in sculpture and paintings. An imagined community lives out its life in the works; Shilling patiently works to realize the scenes according to the life in their world.