Gallery 2 is exhibiting the work of Carly Newman '11 through October 29. This work is a collection of experiments and finished works. Some images come from Carly’s childhood friend Rebecca Ganellen as part of a collaborative exhibition, "Wrinkles and Phantoms."
These works are made using fabric dye and a process called sublimation printing. Sublimation printing uses heat to transfer dye printed on special paper onto synthetic fabric. These prints are made from curtains, tablecloths, and blankets. These works are made using fabric dye and a process called sublimation printing. Sublimation printing uses heat to transfer dye printed on special paper onto synthetic fabric. These prints are made from curtains, tablecloths, and blankets. Similar to the wrinkling of old curtains or fading of grandma's upholstery, memories change and distort. These prints represent the negotiations we have with our past, and how much of our memories are accessible to our own minds and those around us.
Artists Carly and Rebecca are family friends who played together as kids. After losing touch and then reconnecting after several years, the two discovered they had independently sought out career paths as artists. With permission, Carly began processing Rebecca's personal photos from Instagram, the platform on which they reconnected, into large-scale monoprints. While the photos do not change in subject, the process is visible, adding textures, brushstrokes, and “phantoms” to the image. Carly overlays gestural brushstrokes on top of scenes only familiar to Rebecca to represent the two artists’ independent paths converging. Their new work visually displays images that feel faintly familiar yet frustratingly distant, similar to their current relationship.
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