Eight-Armed Sun Cross: 5/03—6/30, 2022
ONLINE SHOW
An online show of work by members Kelly Boehmer, Jaynie Crimmins, Melissa Eder, Caitlin McCormack, Jessica Soininen-Eddis & Maria Stabio
This curation by co-director Kat Ryals considers an explosive moment of rebirth and renewal - a fresh existence emerging from the dead, the discarded, and the lowly on a continual feedback loop. The title of the exhibition references the Wheel of the Year - an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern Pagans, consisting of the year's chief solar events and the midpoints between them. Featuring fiber-based works, wall sculpture, and paintings, the works range in size from 6x6 inches to 54x48 inches.
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Meet the artists
Melissa Eder received her B.F.A. In Painting and Printmaking from the Parsons School of Design where she studied with Sean Scully and a M.F.A. In Combined Media from Hunter College where she studied with Robert Morris. Her work has been shown at the Bronx Museum, the Aperture Foundation, Every Woman Biennial, Humble Arts, The Davis/Orton Gallery, the Griffin Museum of Photography, University of Connecticut, Broadway Windows (New York University) and in Berlin, London, Rome and Korea. She was an artist-in-residence at the Henry Street Settlement, the Saltonstall Foundation and the Atlantic Center for the Arts with renowned photographer Graciela Iturbide. Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Feature Shoot, the Huffington Post, and the Collector Daily.
Caitlin McCormack is a Philadelphia-based artist who contemplates societal reluctance to view gendered craft as art and regards crochet as a behavioral response to apocalyptic conditions. Evoking folklore, medieval botanical imagery, osteological displays, sci-fi and body horror, each work is a memory’s artifact tethered to a surface and made viewable from a distance. Cait has participated in solo and group exhibitions at The Mütter Museum, Museum Rijswijk, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, The Taubman Art Museum, Hashimoto Contemporary, The Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Feinkünst Krüger, Field Projects, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show. McCormack has taught at PAFA, completed residencies at ChaNorth, The Peter Bullough Foundation, and The Wassaic Project, and was a 2021 Joseph Robert Foundation grantee.
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@mister_caitlin
Maria Stabio (b. San Francisco, CA) is a Filipino-American painter. She graduated with a BFA in Painting from Boston University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. Her work has been shown at Spring Break Art Show (NY), NADA Miami (FL), Fjord (PA), Pen and Brush (NY), Chasama (NY), Essex Flowers (NY), (harbor) (NY), Orgy Park (NY) and Ely Center of Contemporary Art (CT). She has been awarded artist residencies at ChaNorth (NY), Hinge Arts Program (MN), The Rensing Center (SC) and Vermont Studio Center (VT). In 2012, she was a recipient of the Artist in Residence Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar where she served as artist in residence and adjunct faculty for one academic year. She also works at Alexandre Gallery in New York City.
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@mstabio
Kelly Boehmer has exhibited and performed her work nationally and internationally in over 175 exhibitions, including shows in Miami, New York City, New Orleans, San Juan, South Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She received her BFA in Studio Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA in Studio Art at the University of South Florida. She is a member of the performance art band, Glitter Chariot. Boehmer is a Professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, in Savannah, GA.
kellyboehmer.com
@kelly.boehmer
Jessica Soininen-Eddis is a contemporary visual artist who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, RI. While there, she was selected to study abroad as part of RISD’s European Honors Program, and spent the year living, studying and making art in Rome. Soininen-Eddis also received her Master of Fine Arts in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Soininen-Eddis’s artwork has been exhibited throughout Italy and the United States. Her work has been included in many exhibitions including those at Equity Gallery in Manhattan, AS220 in Providence, RI and LABspace in Hillsdale, NY. She has also been awarded two artist residencies at the Museum of Motherhood in St. Petersburg, FL.
jessicasoininen-eddis.com
@jsoininen_eddis
Jaynie Crimmins, a New York City based artist, creates alternative narratives from quotidian materials. Her work has been shown at ART on PAPER NYC; and exhibited at the Sharjah Museum of Art during the Islamic Arts Festival in the United Arab Emirates; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC; Governor’s Island Art Fair, NYC; the National Museum of Romanian Literature in addition to museums throughout the United States including the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, VA; Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, GA. She holds two degrees in Art Education - a BS from the State University College at Buffalo and MS from the College of New Rochelle, with a minor in Art Therapy. She is represented by K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA and Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta, GA and shows with the Front Room Gallery, Azure Arts and Art Lives Here in NYC.
www.jayniecrimmins.com
@jgcrimmins