Between Object and Image: Ann Agee, Andrea Clark, Michelle Carla Handel, Sacha Ingber, and Mariana Garibay Raeke

curated by Andrea Clark 

BETWEEN OBJECT AND IMAGE showcases work where there is a prevalent shifting between two and three dimensionality such as applying sculptural ideas and materials to the wall or erecting a two dimensional plane into three dimensions.  This exhibition finds and examines the connections between the work of five artists: Ann Agee, Andrea Clark, Michelle Carla Handel, Sacha Ingber, and Mariana Garibay Raeke. 

This exhibition also acknowledges the deluge of digital representation of art over the past 10-15 years, and which we have experienced almost exclusively in this past year of the pandemic. As we swipe through these works on our laptops and handheld devices we experience a constant teetering between the images on our screens and how the works creep toward and engage with two dimensionality. Ultimately the work buzzes within this liminal space. 

Ann Agee

Ann Agee (b. 1959, Philadelphia) is a contemporary artist living and working in Brooklyn. Working primarily in ceramic she has increasingly become known for her installations, appropriating traditional decoration motifs and playing with the organization of domestic interiors. Her sculptural works explore subjects both ornamental and narrative touching upon themes personal and social in domestic life, child rearing, and labor. She combines the sensibilities of highly ornate decorative objects with quotidian household interiors to make a signature style that is profoundly complex, laced with play and humor. Agee attended Cooper Union School of Art for her BFA (’81) and received her MFA from Yale University in 1986.

Agee created major installations at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY (2012) and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, (2010). Her work has been seen in prominent clay exhibitions Dirt on Delight, Institute of Contemporary Art, PA (traveled to the Walker Art Center, MN); and Conversations in Clay, Katonah Art Museum, NY. She was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2011), The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1997) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1989, 1992), among others. Works by Agee can be found in the collections of: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The RISD Art Museum, RI; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; The Henry Art Museum in Seattle, WA; The Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, FL.

Andrea Clark

Andrea Clark (b. 1990) is an artist currently living in southeast Georgia, USA.  She has completed residencies at Greenwich House Pottery (2015), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2018), and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts (2018).  She is a recipient of the Windgate Emerging Artist Grant.  Recent exhibitions include "Don't Dream It's Over" at ESXLA.  

Michelle Carla Handel

Michelle Carla Handel is Los-Angeles based artist. Their work has been featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Wignall Museum, the Torrance Art Museum, Durden and Ray, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles. She has completed residencies at Anderson Ranch Art Center (2018) and the Vermont Studio Center (2018) and is a recipient of the 2020 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant.

Sacha Ingber

Sacha Ingber (born 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) lives and works in New York. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013. Ingber has been an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2013) and the Vermont Studio Center (2010). She is a 2018/19 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program awardee. Recent exhibitions were held at Brennan & Griffin, NY, Hometown Gallery, NY, Reynolds Gallery, VA, Vox Populi, PA, DaSilva Gallery in New Haven, CT, Kunstraum, NY, Coustof Waxman, NY, and PEANA projects in Monterrey, MX. Ingber’s first Chicago solo exhibition was held at Triumph Gallery in spring 2018. She is currently included in the group show “Where the threads are worn” at Casey Kaplan Gallery, NYC through April 17. 

Mariana Garibay Raeke

Mariana Garibay Raeke is a multidisciplinary artist working with a range of media that includes installation, drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography. Her work examines ideas of transformation through material explorations guided by process and place. She is interested in making works that capture the ephemeral nature of experience and question our understanding of images, objects, and bodies.

Born in Mexico and based in Brooklyn, Garibay Raeke holds a BFA from the California College of the Arts and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. Her recent solo exhibitions include "To the Center and Back", La Señora, Oaxaca; “closing the space between us”, The Chimney, Brooklyn; and “Every Number is One”, Transmitter, Brooklyn. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Arts and Design, NY; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO; and Pocoapoco, Mexico. She is currently included in the group show “Where the threads are worn” at Casey Kaplan Gallery, NYC through April 17.