Process_Reprocess

Process + Reprocess

The Front Room Gallery is proud to present “Process + Reprocess”, featuring the works of Joanne Ungar and Jaynie Gillman Crimmins . In “Process + Reprocess” Crimmins and Ungar both use the recycled materials, cardboard and paper as the base materials to create their sculptural wall works, addressing physical and cultural issues of waste. Both sculptors address consumerism and societal issues, from advertising, cosmetics, beauty, and excess. Yet, despite the similarly humble ingredients these two are creating from decidedly different ‘recipes’. Each artist uses their own unique preservation method to transform the mundane into objects of glory.

In pairing these two artists together for this exhibition, the process of layering and composition can be analyzed through their mode of construction. Crimmins’ process begins with transformation of flat materials of paper advertisements and catalogs into tubes and voluminous fringes, while Ungar take the inverse approach of flattening three-dimensional packaging to expose the core elemental design. Then the process of building begins. Ungar building up from the flat surface, casting layer upon layer of pigmented wax, creating a depth of fused color over the geometric design below. Crimmins, in an alternate additive process, assembles each shredded and built paper unit, sewing and stitching into place, in a nearly meditative process, creating sculptural reliefs that reference architectural design elements and ornamental forms. FULL PRESS RELEASE >>>>

Joanne Ungar’s luscious waxy pieces hang on the wall, the layers of detail exposed as light pierces the gemlike colors to reveal the geometric forms preserved below, as an insect in amber. Ungar’s works exist within themselves, with a depth that seems to go on endlessly. Jaynie Gillman Crimmins’ sculptural pieces protrude off the wall in 3 dimensions, in patterns that seem to have formed in nature, as fractals, as florets, or crystals.

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