marty weishaar: sea i made it
DESCRIPTION
In See I MADe IT, Marty Weishaar forms symbolic relationships between traditional and nontraditional materials with various historical approaches, such as intuitive abstraction and conceptualism. Connections are made-between two-dimensional and three-dimensional projects, battle ships, systematic abstract paintings, diarist drawings, airplanes, and bridges.TRANSCRIPT
In Sea I MADe IT, Marty Weishaar
forms symbolic relationships
between traditional and
nontraditional materials with
various historical approaches, such
as conceptualism and intuitive
abstraction. Connections are
made between two-dimensional
and three-dimensional projects,
battle ships, systematic abstract
paintings, diarist drawings,
airplanes, and bridges.
Made from cardboard, hot glue, tape, and house paint and ranging in size from one-foot to three-feet, scaled-down models of destroyers, aircraft carriers, tugboats, and sailing ships, drift on and over the walls.
Small, mixed-media drawings on vellum; abstracted paintings on canvas, cardboard, and wooden text; and loopily painted white cardboard radio towers are all hung to cover the wall and extend to areas on the floor.
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Goodbye, Hello, Farewell, 2011
cardboard and hot glue
various dimensions
RiGhT
From the series
The Black Road, 2010
marker, watercolor, and
ink on vellum
10” x 8”
On a separate wall hang large abstract acrylic paintings on paper. The paintings are displayed with cardboard text (See I MADe It, MARTY YOUR SO CRAFTY), framed vellum drawings, and Polaroid portraits of the artist.
Geometric abstraction, paintings, and installation. Organized together, sharing space, each element evaluates, mirrors, and criticizes the other—there is no hierarchy of materials, or of symbols, or between drawing, painting, and sculpture, so each system points out the strengths and the pitfalls of the other.
Studio Installation, Sea I made it, 2011,
mixed media
Sea I MADe IT is not just a play of craftily made projects, but an exercise in finding linear and nonlinear organizational strategies between high art and craft. It is an exhibition of the process, the product, and the attitude. It is a rearranging of the discourse between style and technique—text to ships to abstraction; sculpture to drawing to painting; high art and craft.
Untitled (Kinetic Match-Box
Car Track), 2009
foam, zip-ties, tape,
toy cars, cardboard
15’ x 25’ x 10’
Directions
Baltimore Beltway, I-695, to exit 27A. Make first left onto campus.
The Rosenberg Gallery is free and open to the public.
The Rosenberg Gallery program is funded with the assistance of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of Maryland and the NEA, and the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences.
www.goucher.edu/rosenberg
Rosenberg GalleryGallery Hours
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday – Sunday.410.337.6477
october 25 – December 4, 2011(Gallery will be closed November 22-27
for Thanksgiving)
artists’ reception
Friday, november 11, 2011, 6-8 p.m.
Marty Weishaar: sea i MaDe it
Marty Weishaar: sea i MaDe it
(Front leFt) UNtitled, 2011, watercolor and marker on velum, 8’’ x 11’’ (Front riGHt) Marty Go Home, 2009,
cardboard, hot glue, multiple drawings on paper with acrylic, ink, and marker, various dimensions