EMPHASIS: SPACE + TIME
Jamie Banes + Rosalyn Richards
Reception : Sat July 13, 4-6pm
Jamie Banes, Diminished Reach, 10 1/2” x 19” x 8”, mixed media, 2023
About Jamie Banes:
Jamie Banes is an Upstate New York-based artist working with found and collected materials. His current body of work is a series of dystopian architectural models and cityscapes emblematic of the current social and political discord of our time. He describes his work as snapshots of our present reality, symbolizing difficult and uncertain times.
Jamie has worked professionally in the areas of art and architecture for over twenty years, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, and the Graduate School of Architecture at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Since relocating to New York State from Northern California, he has served in various roles within the Community Arts Network of Oneonta and as Adjunct Lecturer of Sculpture at Hartwick College.
Banes holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from UC Davis and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico. His artwork has appeared in venues including the de Young Museum, Bedford Gallery, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Root Division, Slate Contemporary, the Exploratorium, the Cooperstown Art Association Galleries, Schweinfurth Art Center, and at Aqua Art Miami.
About Rosalyn Richards:
Rosalyn Richards received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Yale University School of Art. Her work is represented in many museum and university gallery collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hood Museum of Dartmouth College, Yale University Art Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Ackland Art Museum of the University of North Carolina, the Samek Art Museum of Bucknell University, Guangdong Museum of Contemporary Art in China, Purdue University Galleries, and Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, among others. She has held artist residencies at numerous locations in the United States including Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Ragdale in Illinois. She was a visiting artist and critic at Colby College, Cornell University, the University of Dallas, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China, and the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Rosalyn Richards’s work has been included in numerous national and international exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at Anchor Graphics in Chicago, Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, The Print Center in Philadelphia, Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York, and Village Gallery in Hauz Khas Village in New Delhi, India. In 2009 her drawings were exhibited at The Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Tianjin, China where she was also a guest lecturer. Recently her prints were included in “Multiple Encounters Second Edition”, at The National Academy of Fine Art in New Delhi, India. From 1982 – 2014 Richards taught drawing and printmaking at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Rosalyn Richards, Big Sky, 31” x 42” (framed), acrylic on paper, 2019
