Denise Treizman (l to r) “Untitled (All In), Handwoven textile, LED light and ductape; “Untitled (The Christmas Tree I Never Had)”, Strings, tape and tinsel lights on canvas; “Untitled (Wrapping Grip)”, iridescent paper, tape and rope on canvas
Denise Treizman “Untitled (Pink see through)”, Iridescent paper, plastidip paint, glass, frame and duct tape
About Denise Treizman from Morean Arts Center-
A Chilean-Israeli artist, Denise Treizman earned an MA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and is currently a studio resident at Laundromat Art Space in Miami. Her work has been exhibited across the US and internationally. She has completed numerous artist residencies including those at Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA; NARS Foundation International Artists Residency, Brooklyn, NY; and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York City, where she developed her work until 2019.
Denise creates sculptures and installation-based works combining found objects and ready-made materials with brightly colored, textural, and sometimes luminescent weavings. Through a practice of gleaning and repurposing, she accumulates materials with no specific purpose in mind, except having them at hand and available to subtly shape the creation of her works. Her process is at once an act of artistic ownership over her materials as well as a playful exploration of the infinite possibilities that they afford her. Denise critically examines hyper-consumerism, but at the same time, she paradoxically participates in it, relying on commercial goods and throwaway culture to make her work. She exposes her own way of dealing with excess: on one hand, she questions the real need for vibrantly patterned single-use materials, like pink flamingo-printed duct tape, or violet bubble wrap, to exist. On the other one, she finds these playful materials to be absolutely irresistible. By incorporating them into her found object installations and unconventional weavings, she prompts the viewer to reflect on the mass-produced society in which we live.
Leeann Rae, “It never ends”, Charcoal and soft pastel
Leeann Rae, “The death of the maiden”, Charcoal and soft pastel
About Leeann Rae from the gallery-
Based in Central Florida, Leeann Rae’s work is an exploration of memory through drawing. Using charcoal, soft pastel, and ink, Leeann makes large scale drawings to encourage the viewer to question their understanding of memory. Leeann is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Central Florida. During her time in this program, she has received several accolades such as the College of Arts and Humanities scholarship and a graduate assistantship which has given her the opportunity to teach fundamental drawing classes at UCF.
“My work is an investigation of how we understand episodic memory, the act of recalling specific events or episodes from one’s past. I utilize photographic references, imagination, recounted stories, and my own lived experience as vessels of recollected memories. I develop drawn images with charcoal and soft pastel because they can be layered and difficult to erase. The inherent qualities of my materials leave a ghost or remnant of the original thought or mark placement. I hope viewers are encouraged to navigate the narrative I present in the drawings, as well as reflect on the ways in which their memories are constructed.”