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UGA gallery director and faculty member creates exhibit inspired by the Shade Bar and Sullivan Street in New York City
Contact: Rene D. Shoemaker, 706/542-8292, rds@uga.edu; Vincenzo Vulajic (The Shade Bar), 212/982-6275, 917/885-5191
Oct 26, 2004, 17:31
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Athens, Ga. – “The Neighborhood: Rediscovering the Shade Bar & Sullivan Street” is an exhibition of hand-painted silks representing the neighborhood where the Shade Bar is located. All work is new and was made expressly for this exhibit by Rene D. Shoemaker, a native of Staten Island, N.Y., and currently the librarian and director of the Owens Library and Circle Gallery at the University of Georgia’s College of Environment and Design.
The exhibit will run for one day only on Sunday, Nov. 7, at the Shade Bar, which is located at 241 Sullivan Street; a reception will be held that day at the bar from 2 until 6 p.m. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
“The colors of the silks are bright, deep and lively and are meant to evoke a sense of rediscovering those areas that we all tend to walk by without really noticing, which we pass on a daily basis, with new awareness,” said Shoemaker. “From the signs on the street, to the corner store selling roses and oranges, to the ice cream cart in Washington Square, the intention of the artist is to give to the viewer a sense of joy and a new look at the city. As we all know, the urban environment can sometimes seem dark and grey, yet it is the joys in our life and the friendships and relationships we have that brighten our days; as well as our ability to see beauty in that which surrounds us.”
The technique the artist uses to design the silks incorporates a wax resist with the dye applied like paint; the designs are reminiscent of silk screen but have a depth and luminosity that arrives from the layering of the dye. All colors are mixed individually. The silk can be hung or worn as art.
Born and raised in Staten Island, Shoemaker credits her ten years with the UGA’s environment and design school, which teaches landscape architecture and historic preservation, with her ability to find and express a sense of place in her artwork. She also credits her design sensibilities to her childhood and adolescence in New York with the connection to Manhattan and especially the Washington Square area. The artist credits the effect the Village and the surrounding neighborhoods had on her development as a person and an artist as well.
Shoemaker created these designs while visiting the sites. She sketches while on location and then sketches the design again onto the silk before the dyeing process begins, thereby reducing the design to less and less detail; sometimes her designs, to her pleasure, become quite abstracted.
Working with the running theme of a sense of place, Shoemaker has had a number of solo shows in Athens, Ga., creating different spaces with the designs on the silk as well as with the installations for that particular exhibit. She recently installed a permanent commission of three large (15’) silk pieces in the Ramsey Student Center at UGA, titled “Kind Words Rising,” that evokes the sense of physical activities at the facility, the Olympic pool and the architecture of the space in which the pieces were installed.
Shoemaker is also a faculty member at UGA; she received her BFA from UGA in 1981 and an MLIS from the University of South Carolina in 1993.
To view the artist’s work and for more background information, visit www.coffeecuppress.com.
Note to editors: Images of Shoemaker’s work are available upon request by contacting the artist.
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