Show Announcement Posted By: emkpainter When: 01/15/2008 at 01:00 pm Where: Fulton Street Gallery 408 Fulton Street Troy New York, 12180 United States Email Contact: info@fultonstreetgallery.org

January 15th - February 16, 2008.  Little Engines is a group show inspired by the classic
children’s story The Little Engine That Could. Through
the perspective of the artists’ and the struggle to create, share,
and exchange information despite opposition, collectively the artists
pull together, in a positive way, in order to confront the seemingly
impassable mountain.

Artists include:

ABE FERRARO

http://www.sculpturespace.org/artist/ferraro.html



BLUE LAKE HAWK

http://www.bluelakehawk.com/



BRIAN HART

Exploration of objects and surfaces has long been an integral part
of my motivation as an artist. My earliest work used the destruction
and rehabilitation of the photographic surface, and fragmentation
and reconstruction of photographic images to achieve a previously
unforeseen whole. More recently I began directly photographing the
surfaces of objects that surround us, witnessing the evidence of
time's passing contained within these surfaces, and of the human
effort to deter their decline. These images also began to become
about the creation and manipulation of space, and lack of space.
Straight on and squared up, the camera contains space and limits
frame of reference to create a flat, confrontational and sometimes
claustrophobic interaction with the viewer. Though my most recent
work continues this use of spatial manipulation, I have begun to
retreat from the subject, approaching objects more as wholes than
just for their surfaces alone. Many of these recent images examine
spaces and objects I have known all my life. Others were only discovered
recently. In both cases these photographs attempt to recast the
useless, vacant and obsolete as relevant and essential, and in some
cases monumental.



ERIKA M. KLEIN (born 1979):

I grew up in a rather rural town near Albany, NY. From 1999-2000
I attended the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow Scotland, then in
2001 I graduated from Beaver College with a BFA. My work has been
exhibited not only locally but also in L.A, Glasgow Scotland, and
Bari Italy. Currently I live in my hometown where I create mandalas,
in both watercolour and digitally. By utilizing both conventional
and unconventional tools I allow paint to take on a life of it’s
own and in the digital method I allow unexpected patterns to emerge.
Regardless of the medium I use, all of these pieces come from the
same basic idea that instinct and controlled accidents are utilized
to create, a dialogue between myself the artworks, and ultimately
the viewer as well. My watercolours generally take anywhere from
50 to 100 thin layers of paint to create. Similarly, my digitals
take up to 40 or more layers to make a final piece. Personally,
I often define these circular paintings as windows into the soul
because my inspiration comes from my innermost feelings, thoughts,
and experiences. I never work from a preconceived notion of what
the final appearance will or should be.

My intention in the end is to have the viewer feel, think, and question.



JAKE WINISKI was born and raised in North Liberty, Iowa and now
lives and works in Albany, New York. Jake received a BFA from the
University of Iowa in 2005 and is currently earning an MFA from
the University at Albany. Recent exhibitions include the Terra Nova
Gallery in Troy and the State University Plaza in Albany.



JAMIE KENDELL THOMPSON

Born in historic Troy, New York, Jamie Kendell Thompson had an interest
in art and photography at an early age. She received her first camera
at the age of six and learned about making black and white prints
from her grandfather. Her sensibility for design comes from her
background in graphic arts. She holds an Associates degree in Graphic
Design from Sage College and a B.A. in Communication Design from
California State University, Long Beach. Jamie has lived in many
different cities throughout North America, including New York, Los
Angeles and Toronto. She currently resides in Defreestville, New
York with her dog Bogart and her cat Van Gogh.



JENNIFER HUNOLD was born and raised in southeast Iowa, and currently
lives and works in Albany, New York. She is currently earning her
Master of Fine Arts from the University at Albany and received her
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. The artist has
recently shown her work at the Terra Nova Gallery in Troy, at the
SUNY Urban Recruitment Center in New York City, and at the State
University Plaza in Albany. Hunold has been the recipient of numerous
grants and scholarships, most notably the Carver Scholars Program
Award, University at Albany Tuition Scholarship, and the University
of Iowa Tuition Scholarship. In a culture built on speed and constant
distraction, endless streams of information bloom at our fingertips
and glance across our paths. Demanding our attention at every given
moment, popular media tell us what to eat, wear, say and think.
Our moral principles and social norms have created this phenomenon
and in turn have been constructed by it. Conversely, my work glorifies
that which is ordinary, simple and often overlooked. It requests
that time be spent engaged in its composition, reflecting and pausing
on one’s independently formed perceptions and interpretations of
the work. Within my imagery, experiences are represented by iconic
images. As time passes, these icons consistently gain new significance
as more and more memories become associated with their meanings.
By continuously gathering up details from my experiences and linking
them to past events, I create the rich library of information from
which I make limitless connections. This collection is the foundation
of my work, which synthesizes a visual relationship between structures,
emotions, memory and immediate circumstances. In the images, the
use of architectural and environmental patterning in addition to
iconic imagery describes the relationship between the self and one’s
surroundings. In the exploration of these connections, I search
to define myself apart from my history while utilizing the monuments
in my memory to express the present moment.



NICHOLAS REINERT

Questions and statements create conversations. This collection of
works contains illustrated ideas and objects that have curiously
convened around my brain. The inherent conversations start with
me and reach out to you. Feel free to respond, or not.



SARAH MACWRIGHT

http://sarahmacwright.com/


Statement: Consider two common uses for the word possessed.
For example, an inanimate object could be possessed in
an otherworldly sense; the object might have a life, personality,
or abilities of its own, and a starring role in an old black and
white horror film. In a second sense, an object is possessed
in an ordinary way; the object has become part of someone's
things, someone's life. I possess (own) this pen. This
pen is possessed (bewitched). My artistic process is wedded
to both forms of possessed. First, I possess and
change the materials, the film, wood, pencils, or fabric. In the
moment of creation, I own these objects, and they change and function
according to my manipulation. Later, a viewer discovers these objects
here, in this white-walled gallery. At this moment, the art is
possessed - bewitched and living through its own accord, without
my help. MacWright has recently exhibited her work at Williams College
Museum of Art, Wilde Gallery in Williamstown, MA, Glasgow Film Theatre,
Glasgow, UK, Glasgow School of Art, and the Contemporary Art Center
in Adams, MA.



SARAH MARTINEZ

http://www.sarahesthermartinez.com/

Sarah Martinez studied painting at Massachusetts College of Art
in Boston, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Purchase
College in Westchester, NY. Her artwork is on permanent collection
with The Albany Institute of History and Art and she has exhibited
at the Pocketbook Factory in Hudson, Visions Gallery, in Albany,
NY and The Albany Underground Artists Unification show. Currently,
she resides in Albany with her husband and daughter, works full-time
at Albany Center Gallery as the Executive Director, and is the art
critic for the arts and fashion magazine UPSTATE. Her current body
of work is a series of polyhedrons inspired by her fascination with
Buckminster Fuller.

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