THROUGH LINE

THROUGH LINE

September 5 – November 23, 2024
Reception: September 19, 5-7pm

Works by Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Carly Glovinski, Lynne Harlow, Rachel Perry, Patricia Rangel, and August Ventimiglia

THROUGH LINE celebrates basic mark-making as a foundation for the remarkable. Each of the six artists on view explores line through the lens of their distinct practices and mediums, ranging from marker to string, chalk, and even dirt! Together, they apply their shared interest in using lines as the basis for their work to boldly illustrate how understated, rudimentary marks can be explored more deeply. Collectively, the artworks on view act as tributes to the mark, celebrating the multitude of ways lines can be made, manipulated, and made monumental. In dialogue with one another, thematic commonalities or through lines between the works emerge and bring the exhibition into focus.

The featured artists shake up flat presentations of line, most breaking the plane entirely to render gesture and form in physical space. While their mediums are vast and divergent, each artist enters the conversation through painstakingly repetitious, modest, and slow gestures. They amass into vibrant works that arrest the viewer just as quickly as they entice them to slow down and look more closely. Through drawing (on and off the wall) digital media, sculpture, and installation, THROUGH LINE reminds us that simple lines are the basis of what can truly shape anything.

Katherine Mitchell DiRico uses drawing, sculpture, light, and sound elements to create multimedia installations that investigate how we negotiate connectivity and sense perception in today’s networked world. In THROUGH LINE, Mitchell DiRico continues to explore the ways in which drawing can be illustrated as a physical object, and a digital experience. The artist is engage with Lamont Gallery’s architecture to create a site-specific installation by layering a projected video with tangible material elements such as thread and mylar. Mitchell DiRico holds a BA from Smith College and the University of Dakar, Senegal, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University.

New Hampshire-based artist Carly Glovinski creates work that explores the make-do, resourceful attitudes associated with domestic craft and a reverence for nature and the great outdoors. The elements of time and place are embedded in her work, marked by labor and repetitive processes. Glovinski received her BFA from Boston University and is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York. Her current body of work, Almanac, a 100-foot installation of simulated pressed flowers, is on view at MASS MoCA.

Based in Providence, Rhode Island, interdisciplinary artist Lynne Harlow uses her practice to explore the question, “How little is enough?” Her minimal work walks a delicate line between ridged, geometric abstraction and playful, amusing sculpture that practically begs to be touched. Working primarily in a monochromic, neon color palette, Harlow embodies the core spirit of the phrase, less is more. THROUGH LINE will feature two works in Plexi from the 2010s and a brand-new site-specific vinyl curtain suspended from the skylights just outside Lamont Gallery. Harlow earned her MFA from Hunter College, The City University of New York in printmaking and her BA from Framingham State College, in Framingham, MA.
 

In this exhibition, Massachusetts-based artist Rachel Perry shares one of her Chiral Drawings. These works began as an attempt to make a drawing using every single writing implement she owned. Perry shares, “Once I had gathered them, I decided to limit the expression to the simplest gesture: a line. Each subsequent line, made with a different implement used only once, follows the previous. As the drawing builds, the lines swiftly begin to tremble with a seismic quality, recording the history of the mark making, as well as the history of a household.” Perry’s works are featured in numerous museums and private collections around the world, including the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
 

California Central Valley-based artist Patricia Rangel creates abstract landscapes by extracting and compacting earth. Rangel responds to dirt as a material that can present vulnerability, failure, strength, and potential to promote growth and change.  The structures she creates are composed of dirt and found materials from places that hold significance. For her, the intersecting and overlapping of lines in this work acts as a metaphor for navigating complex emotions and the potential and opportunity for growth. Rangel received her BFA and MFA from California State University, Long Beach. She teaches Sculpture at California State University, Fresno.

August Ventimiglia creates abstract drawings inspired by forms and processes in nature such as horizons, waves, tides, patterns, noises, and sounds. He states, “I am interested in visualizing the experience of time, both the minute length of time it takes me to draw a single line and the imagined expanse of time we call the universe.” For THROUGH LINE Ventimiglia creates a custom chalk wall drawing spanning more than 20 feet, directly on the Lamont Gallery’s newly renovated walls. Ventimiglia received his degree in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and attended Maine College of Art. He works in Boston as a Building Design Consultant as well as a Project Manager and Collection Prepartor for a private art collection.

Lamont Gallery programs are supported in part by the Michael C. Rockefeller ’56 Visiting Artists Fund.

Image Credits:
Postcard image: Patricia Rangel, Circuition, Mixed and compacted dirt from Ollin Farms, 2023
Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Like Water On Stone (detail), 2023, Site-Specific video installation 
Carly Glovinski, Salmon Falls Rag Rug, 2020, Pigment marker and acrylic on paper
Lynne Harlow, Western Sun Meets the Air 3, 2015, Fluorescent Plexiglas
Rachel Perry, Chiral Lines 34, 2019, Graphite, marker, ballpoint, colored pencil on paper. Photo credit: Julia Featheringill Photography
Patricia Rangel, Installing a piece at BMoCA, 2023
August Ventimiglia, Installing Four Quarter Swell, 2015, Fidelity Investments, Inc, Boston, MAAugust Ventimiglia, Installing Four Quarter Swell, 2015, Fidelity Investments, Inc, Boston, MA
Carly Glovinski, Leisure Weave 35, 2021, Ink and correction fluid on woven vellum and Bristol