RAIN/WATER exhibit of 3 RI artists’ takes on rain & water
RAIN/WATER: Three artists’ explorations of water & rain
Rachel Brask
Shawndavid Berry
& Laura White Carpenter
combine forces in their own unique artforms exploring rain and water forms. Shawndavid Berry’s water-esque paintings and organic wood sculptures, Laura White Carpenter’s diverse ceramic sculptures of rain drops, and Rachel Brask’s oil paintings viewing rainy windows of abstracted landscape. Join this artist friend trio for a SoWa First Friday reception on June 7, 5-9pm, in Studio 410 at 450 Harrison Ave, Boston MA.
Gallery/studio hours: SoWa Sundays 11-4, & by appointment --call/text 401-400-0418 or email info@rachelbraskstudio.com
Studio 410, 450 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA
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Plan a night out of seeing a bunch of artists studios and open galleries, get dinner and make it an event!
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
& THE ARTISTS
RAIN/WATER is an exhibition of three artists from Rhode Island whose work complements one another in their relation to rain, water, and the environment, through the various mediums of wood, ceramics, and paint. All three artists also have a great affinity for one another, and has talked about doing an exhibit together for a long time. Lo, and behold! This is that exhibition!
Shawndavid Berry is a sculptor and woodworker and painter who is adept at connecting organic spaces and forms together, manipulating organic forms, causing the viewer to see smaller scenes within scenes, to look for hidden elements within the ‘scape. His use of positive and negative space, and technical explorations with materials is always evolving, as one can see a definite connection between his skillfully crafted woodworks and paintings.
Instagram: @shawndavidwoodworks
Laura White Carpenter is a ceramicist, painter and mixed media artist. She works in hand-built porcelain sculpture and mixed media of found materials (metal, wood, & “junk”). For the past few years, she has been creating hand-built spherical raindrop forms with a goal of making a series of 52 individual forms. She uses decorative marks to indicate an object’s or place’s significance, and she’s increasingly utilized techniques and supplies that have a lower impact upon the Earth. Her coil-building process uses minimal water and has become a core part of her process and reason for sustainable art practice. Her understated works require closer examination to appreciate more deeply the intimately nuanced surface marks, textures, and deeper meanings of each piece. In particular her ceramic sculptures of raindrop shapes are a mix of beauty, fragility, and determined strength in the face of harsh conditions.
Instagram: @theartistinresidence
Rachel Brask is an oil painter who has exclusively painted abstracted landscapes alluding to rainy days for the better part of the last decade. In her oil paintings, she transports the viewer to a cozy space imagining the sensory sounds and sights of looking through the glass of a window during intense rainstorms. Her works of color and rain-dripping texture evoke a sense of movement and flow, while also providing insight into spaces beyond, layers of near and far. These windows out to the world also evoke a sense of calm and cocooning that can be necessary and cozy on rainy days, in providing calm and contemplation in the calamity and chaos of an unbridled world.
Instagram: @rbraskstudio