THROUGH LINE

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.