4 Solo Exhibitions
Shaun Leonardo, Fay Ku,
Nadya Volicer, & Jillian Conrad
May 12 - July 1
Opening reception Saturday, May 12, 6-9pm
Hartford, CT: – Real
Art Ways presents 4 Solo Exhibitions by multidisciplinary artist
Shaun Leonardo, painter Fay Ku, and installation artists Nadya Volicer
and Jillian Conrad, opening Saturday,
May 12, from 6-9pm, running through Sunday,
July 1, 2007.
SHAUN LEONARDO
El Conquistador vs. The Invisible Man is a wrestling
event in
which Shaun Leonardo portrays a Mexican wrestling luchador in
order to fight invisibility—metaphorically and literally. Shaun
will be doing a special performance scheduled for opening night,
Saturday May 12th with a rain date of May 17th. (image top
left)
FAY KU
Ku’s narrative and figurative work deals with issues of socialization and
the “un-thought known:” the stuff of memory, myth, and imagination.
Large East Asian-inspired screen prints, depicting large-scale historic battles,
employs mythic imagery to examine current political events, and man’s “innate” capacity
for destruction.
(image top right)
NADYA VOLICER
Volicer is interested both visually and conceptually in piecing together many
small
parts to make up a whole. Whether through a multi-colored mosaic surface, or
a
cluster of lacey paper cutouts, she works towards a visual vibrancy that imparts
upon the viewer a feeling of energy; chaos and harmony. Themes of home, memory,
movement and architecture run throughout her work.
(image bottm right)
JILLIAN CONRAD
Conrad uses sculpture as a tool for creating connections between the ordinary
stuff of everyday life and the singularity of human experience. By juxtaposing
dull and reflective materials, light is employed to transform the opaque into
spaces that are luminous and other-worldly, drawing the viewer into both the
familiarity and friction between the inner and outer worlds we inhabit.
(image bottom left)
Shaun Leonardo, Fay Ku, Nadya Volicer and Jillian Conrad are four of six selected
artists from our 2006 open call, Open, an exhibition series featuring six emerging
artists from New York and New England.
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