Did You Too See It, Drifting, All Night, on the Black River?
An Off-Site Ice Cream Social Exhibition
at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art's Full House Event
Detail of Taurus by Manju Shandler.
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art’s Full House event features a series of exhibition rooms at the John Slade Ely House, each curated by local artist-run collectives and spaces. The Ice Cream Social room at Full House includes works on paper, fiber, printmaking, painting, installation and large-scale sculpture. The room speaks of what is active while we are dormant, and what is dormant while we are active. Certain personal, political, cultural, and scientific undercurrents only reveal themselves with the occasional grip of a passing riptide. In a (semi) post-pandemic atmosphere, the public awareness roused while daily distractors were withdrawn, is now steadily slipping away. A global, communal quiet once nurtured a conscious motion that now seems tapered—creating a distant, static terror for what is coming. In parallel, our personally redemptive memories and relationships form their own ever-running undercurrents and are accessible at all times. Here, there is a sense things are on the precipice of waking.
Featuring work by Amy Amalia, Adina Andrus, Sibley Barlow, Kristian Battell, Jenn Cacciola, Nicki Cherry, Bradlee Hertrick, Natalie Jauregui-Ortiz, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Susan Luss, Patricia Miranda, Taya Naumovich, Dana O'Malley, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Allison Panzironi, Anna Victoria Regner, Lane Sell, Manju Shandler, Kayo Shido, Matthew Shively, Lilian Shtereva, Emily Teall, Sarah Valeri, and Robert Zurer.
Ely Center of Contemporary Art
51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Gallery Hours: Sunday/Monday/Wednesday 12 - 5 pm, Thursday 3- 8 pm
On View: September 11 - November 6
Reception & Block Party: October 2, 2-5 pm - ICS artists will facilitate a public program during this event.
Open during New Haven’s open studios weekend (Artspace Open Source): October 29 & 30
Artists
Amy Amalia
Amy Amalia works to translate her own meditative practice into a new visual landscape. Amalia constructs and composes mesmerizing scenes that serve to transport the viewers on a hypnotic journey inward. Amalia uses a methodical process of paint application to create each symbol, shape and repetitive pattern found in her work. The central figures in her work are presented as guides - obfuscated and abstracted, only to be revealed with focused steady attention and with an earnest intention to see. She received her BA from SUNY Purchase, 2015 and her MFA from The New School of Art and Design, 2018.
Adina Andrus
Adina Andrus works across various media, creating 2D mixed media pieces, sculptures, drawings and installations that confront questions of memory, belonging, and visual culture across time and space. Her works, while rooted in the ancient and folk art of her native country, Romania, allude to a universal pool of images and symbols that we inherit, consume and are guided by, while simultaneously interpreting them and contributing new, contemporary meanings. Andrus has exhibited work in New York City and in numerous galleries across the United States, including the St. Louis Artists Guild, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and Ely Contemporary Art Center, as well as in Bucharest, Romania. She studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA and the Art Students’ League in New York City. She is a recipient of the Queens Council for the Arts New Work Grant and the Arts Alive Artist Grant.
Sibley Barlow
Sibley Barlow explores ideas surrounding time, identity, labor, and repetition particularly as they relate to the body, as well as intersections between civilizations and the natural environment. Her work privileges process and seeks to consolidate performance with the object. He works across mediums and crafts, grouping work as widely varied individual projects. She works primarily in painting, drawing, performance, and installation. Sibley was born in Atlanta, Georgia and received her BFA from Ball State University. He currently lives and works in Mamaroneck, New York and enjoys writing about herself in third person.
Kristian Battell
Kristian Battell is an artist practicing in northern New Jersey and teaches at the Montclair Art Museum. She recently completed a Masters of Fine Art at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Battell received her BFA in Printmaking from Purchase College in 2014. Her work has a multitude of themes: from landscapes solely about light and color, to installations about surveillance and “Big Brother”, and most recently, sculptures about a post-Anthropocene world.
Jenn Cacciola
Jenn Cacciola is a NY and CT-based artist and curator originally hailing from Port Chester, NY. She uses intuitive material choices to leave relics and a sense of touch planted throughout her work in fiber, painting, and sculpture. Peripheral influences like ancient graffiti, extraterrestrial theories, and common mourning practices all begin to represent the allure of half-knowing something while feeling intimately close to it. She is interested in the impulses, nervousness, desires and guiding forces that cause us to seek out relationships to history, and the way these forces inform our present-day relationships. Cacciola has been awarded Artist-in-Residence positions at the Sheen Center For Thought & Culture, Manassas National Battlefield Park, and in virtual residencies with Socially Distant Art, Crisis Residency, World of Co, and Cel del Nord. She is the Co-Founder/Program Director of Ice Cream Social, and a co-curator of Openings Artist Collective and P2P Curatorial.
Nicki Cherry
Nicki Cherry is an artist born in the Midwest and based in New York. After initially studying to become a particle physicist, Cherry received their MFA from Yale School of Art in 2019 and their BA from the University of Chicago in 2014. They presented their first solo exhibition at the Border Project Space in July 2021. Group exhibitions include Flux Factory, ELM Foundation and Shin Gallery in New York; AUTOMAT and Icebox Project Space in Philadelphia; and the Reva David Logan Center for the Arts, and Slate Arts and Performance in Chicago. Cherry’s work has been featured in Arte Fuse, Coastal Post, Art of Choice, and Floorr Magazine. Cherry is a 2022 AIM Fellow at the Bronx Museum of Arts. Cherry will present a solo exhibition at NARS Foundation in 2023.
Bradlee Hertrick
Bradlee Hertrick is a conceptual artist from Louisville, Kentucky, currently living and working in New York City. Pulling inspiration from a religious upbringing, underground heavy music scenes, and midwestern visual culture, he is interested in the infrastructure of external systems (both natural and artificial), that dominate the internal sense of self in the same way that languages shape the way we think.
Natalie Jauregui-Ortiz
Natalie Jauregui-Ortiz is a Mexican-American artist from the Bay Area and based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BA from the University of California – Santa Cruz. She has exhibited at Southern Exposure, the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Glass Gallery at Mana Contemporary, ABC No Rio in ChaShaMa Gallery, Ice Cream Social, and more. Residencies include at the New York Academy of Art and arts, letters, and numbers. She currently paints from her studio in East Williamsburg. You pronounce Jauregui like this: "how-re-ghee".
Ruth Jeyaveeran
Born in Lusaka Zambia, and raised in the Midwest, Ruth Jeyaveeran lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent exhibitions of her textiles, soft sculptures and installations include, Felt Experience at the Brattleboro Museum, Amplify, a public art installation at the Queens Botanical Garden, and UNDERCURRENT at Ely Center of Contemporary Art. She’s been awarded residencies at the Jentel Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, La Napoule Art Foundation, and PADA Studios. Currently, she's an Assistant Professor of Textile Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Susan Luss
Susan Luss, (b. 1959, El Paso, TX) is an inter-disciplinary artist living in New York City, maintaining a professional studio in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Luss works with a range of materials and media. She intermixes and assembles these, creating adaptable work engaging the architecture of space, environment, natural forces, and shifting light. Her large-scale paintings on canvas, distillations of her urban wanderings, both physical and psychological, transform through environmental intervention.
Patricia Miranda
Patricia Miranda is an artist, curator, educator, and founder of the artist-run orgs The Crit Lab and MAPSpace. She has been awarded residencies at Constance Saltonstall Foundation, I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio; grants from Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, ArtsWestchester, Anonymous Was a Woman, and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth. She has upcoming Her work has been exhibited at Jane Street Art Center, Garrison Art Center, ODETTA Gallery, Williamsburg Art+Historical Center, Wave Hill. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at 3S Art Center, Portsmouth NY.
Taya Naumovich
Taya Naumovich (she/her) is an artist currently working and living in Philadelphia. Upon her formal graduation with BA in Marketing from Temple University, she moved to NYC and continued her art education by taking various classes from School of Visual Art, The Art Students League of New York, and being an active member of NYC Crit Club. Working back and forth between real media painting and the digital space, Naumovich’s process underscores this testing of the boundaries between the natural and supernatural worlds and the artist's fundamental and metaphorical questioning of “truth”.Her paintings also explore internal feelings of identity in relation to the transformation and regeneration experienced as an immigrant to a new culture. She has exhibited in multiple group shows across the United States, with the most recent show at Piano Craft Gallery in Boston.
Dana O'Malley
Dana O’Malley (b. 1986) is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Her paintings contemplate the vastness within the quotidian. O'Malley's work has been shown in hallways and galleries throughout the United States including Annmarie Sculpture Garden (MD), Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (IA), Collar Works (NY), and Trestle Gallery (NY). O’Malley holds an M.F.A in Painting from the University of Iowa (2016), and a B.F.A in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (2009).
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Jorge Otero-Pailos is a New York-based artist and preservationist best known for making monumental casts of historically charged buildings. Otero-Pailos draws from his formal training in architecture and preservation to create artworks that address themes of memory, history and transition, inviting the viewer to consider monuments as powerful agents for cultural connection, questioning and understanding. He employs airborne atmospheric dust, waterways, traces of sweat and body sounds, maps, even embassy security fences, to render their invisible meanings visible. Notably, he has used experimental preservation cleaning techniques designed to restore landmarked building as part of his creative process.
Allison Panzironi
Allison Panzironi explores the anxieties that trap us or tie us to our dwellings and how we deal with it in our physical bodies. Allison’s work also deals with the cycles that co-exist in both of those spaces. She is endlessly fascinated by what and where feels like home.
Anna Regner
Anna Regner is an installation and performance artist from Vienna, currently living in New York. The main focus in her practice lies on storytelling, which roots in observations, wishes, memories, and dreams. Her pieces may be considered poetic spaces in which physical presence and imagination merge, consisting of ceramics, drawings, paintings, sound, diverse organic materials, and text. The real constitutes itself by permanently overlapping with the symbolic and the imaginary. Writing is always the starting point for collecting reoccurring thoughts about the everyday fantastic, alternative realities, facts, and fiction.
Lane Sell
Lane Sell is a Virgin Islands artist living in Brooklyn. He is the founder of Shoestring Press, where he has been Master Printer since 2014. He is currently a second-year MFA student at SUNY Purchase.
Manju Shandler
Manju Shandler is a visual artist and theatre designer. Manju Shandler has had solo shows at The Pelham Art Center, Corte Dell’Arte in Venice Italy, Brown University's Sarah Doyle Gallery for Feminist Art, The Hammond Museum, The Honfleur Gallery, The Governor’s Island Art Fair, The Bergdorf Goodman Store Windows and group shows at The Untitled Space, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Gallery Ho, The ISE Cultural Foundation and throughout the US, Amsterdam, Berlin, Tel Aviv and Hong Kong. She regularly shows in her community of Brooklyn, NY. Manju Shandler was selected as a NYFA Artist/Entrepreneur and received the University of Rhode Island’s Sea Grant for Visual Artists, The Art Asset Award from The ISE Cultural Foundation, and was selected for The Art Sprinter Award. Manju Shandler's Puppet/Costume Design has been featured at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, PS 122, The LABA Theatre and at Radio City Music Hall. She has received an Emmy Nomination, Innovative Theatre Award, a Jim Henson Foundation Grant and was an Emerging Artist at the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference. She is one of the original sculptors of masks and puppetry for The Lion King on Broadway. She has a B.A. in Performing Visual Art from Bennington College (1995).
Kayo Shido
Kayo Shido is a visual artist whose work takes references from memories stored in subconscious and natural phenomena and transforms them in abstract form. She expands her paintings into murals, 3D objects and installations. She was born in Hyogo, studied at Saga Art College in Kyoto, Japan, Studio School and School of Visual Arts in New York. She works and lives in New York. Her work has been exhibited at Queens Botanical Garden, Govenor’s Island, Ice Cream Social, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Art of Our Century, One Art Space, Site:Brooklyn, 440 Gallery, Plaxall Gallery, Tenri Gallery, Denise Bibro Gallery, WAH Center and St. Paul the Apostle Church in New York.
Matthew Shively
Matthew Shively started M. Shively Art + Design in Port Chester in 2013, seeking to bridge the gap between art and design. His designs are driven by curiosity and a sense of childlike wonder. His interests have previously guided him through a variety of industries, including running his own vinyl records shop and working as an House DJ. His artistic practice began with woodworking and was followed by metalwork. This led to the founding of his custom furniture company, Cercatrova, which won Interior Design magazine’s 2011 Best of Year award and was invited to show work in New York Design Center’s 2011 Whats New Whats Next showcase. He was then commissioned by Elle Decor’s Modern Life to join the Concept House Project in 2012. He now focuses on his own sculpture and object designs via MSA+D, and is a Co-Founder of Ice Cream Social.
Lilian Shtereva
Lilian Shtereva, born and raised in Bulgaria, is a New York City – based artist. Her work investigates the simultaneous impermanence and tenacity of the natural world, while referencing her personal history and interest in tradition of embroidery and fabric work in Eastern European culture. Sewing and embroidery act to transfer the artist’s intention and energy into the cloth in prayers of “well-wishes” and “protection”, honoring the reliance on and reverence for nature. The artist’s processes and tools include sewing, mending, embroidering, fabrics, textiles, yarn, metallic thread, dry pigments, oil and acrylic paint, and pastels.
Emily Teall
Emily Teall is a Connecticut and New York State-based multimedia artist with particular interests in sculpture and installation. Curiosity about and connection to nature drive her art. She navigates the themes of anxiety and memory, drawing inspiration from ecological, anatomical, and biological references and processes. Her art consistently draws on natural imagery of bulbs, seeds, cocoons, and wombs to evoke a gestation or hibernation period in which the viewer grows through introspection before re-emerging into the community. She is now involved in the arts community of Port Chester, NY through Ice Cream Social's studio space after having recently completed an inaugural residency at the Norwalk Art Space. Her interactive steel sculpture, Tulip Bulb, is on display at the Norwalk Art Space sculpture garden. In addition to building a personal artistic practice, she teaches a broad variety of visual art and design courses to middle and high school students.
Sarah Valeri
Within the non-gravitational fields of color and light of painting, Sarah Valeri explores temporal forms and landscapes in states of change. Elements and beings in her imagery try to find more adaptable forms of strength or power: regeneration, evolution, brightness, vitality. Sarah has exhibited internationally and throughout the metropolitan area in curated and independent exhibitions. She also works as an art therapist in Brooklyn, NY.
Robert Zurer
Robert Zurer is a native New Yorker who lived and worked in New York until 2018, when he relocated to Philadelphia. His work is intuitive and deals with making the unknown known.
