Madwoman in the Woods
A Series of Mixed-Media Collages by Tracie Noles-Ross
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 from 5:30-7:30. Open Saturdays from 11am-4pm. Closes November 2nd, 2019.
A series of mixed media collages by Tracie Noles-Ross exploring southerns narratives, embodied knowledge and the making of new stories. The series of works, Madwoman in the Woods is inspired by complicated southern narratives and landscapes.
Noles-Ross' method of making employs a range of techniques and materials to create objects and installations that reflect her observational studies of the natural world, and her place in that world. Using found objects and natural materials, she creates layered mixed media imagery, explores ideas about her personal history, the body in nature, the precariousness of human relationships to nature and each other withing the constructs of southern culture. Through the merging of mythology, ecology, and storytelling she examines how identity and personal narratives are defined by the land, history, and the mythic imagination. The scraping away and rearranging of materials in the recent work is an analogy for the process of defining ourselves through remembrances and the conscious and deliberate act of making new choices.
Noles-Ross' method of making employs a range of techniques and materials to create objects and installations that reflect her observational studies of the natural world, and her place in that world. Using found objects and natural materials, she creates layered mixed media imagery, explores ideas about her personal history, the body in nature, the precariousness of human relationships to nature and each other withing the constructs of southern culture. Through the merging of mythology, ecology, and storytelling she examines how identity and personal narratives are defined by the land, history, and the mythic imagination. The scraping away and rearranging of materials in the recent work is an analogy for the process of defining ourselves through remembrances and the conscious and deliberate act of making new choices.
About the Artist: Tracie Noles-Ross is a multidisciplinary visual storyteller living and working in Birmingham, Alabama. She became a member of the Ground Floor Contemporary Art collective in 2018 where she has shown in several exhibitions curated by artists such as Sara Garden Armstrong, Miriam Omura and Ty Smith. She was in a featured artist exhibition there with artists Ashley Wingo and Emily Rice. She became a member of the Alabama chapter of the Women’s Caucus for art in 2018 and in the summer of 2019 was selected for the ALWCA juried member exhibition Unbound at Lowe Mill. Noles-Ross was the featured artist of the 12th annual Moss Rock Arts Festival. She illustrated The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild by award winning author and naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt published by Little, Brown. Works on permanent display in Birmingham, Alabama include Poustinia, a conceptual installation commissioned by and created for the Red Mountain Community School, Letters Home, a low relief sculpture displayed in the Regiment of Columns in the Alabama Veterans Memorial and Back to Nature, displayed at the Lister Hill Library on the campus of UAB, a public art project of the Alabama Psychological Association Foundation. Noles-Ross received an Award of Excellence from The University of Alabama at Birmingham Women’s Studies Program for curating Firsts: The Personal and the Historical, an exhibition honoring Women’s History Month. She is a recipient of an Artist’s Grant, from Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado and a Regional Artists Project Grant from The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. Noles-Ross’ work was recently included in B18: Wiregrass Biennial, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama, and she is the 1st place winner of PaperWorkers Local’s second annual juried exhibition ‘Water of Alabama,’ a juried response to Marianne Nicholson’s Birmingham Museum of Art exhibition ‘Waterline,‘ Graham C. Boettcher, PhD, the R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art, juror. Her work Do Unto Others Downstream, a mixed media commentary on environmental conditions along a tributary of the Black Warrior River, earned her the honor of being featured in a one woman exhibition titled, Madwoman in the Woods at PaperWorkers Local in Birmingham in October of 2019.
PaperWorkers Local Presents: Ink Only II
A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Prints
Twitterpated by Kevin Shook
|
Important Dates:
-Deadline for entry submission: June 30, 2019 -Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2019 -Work due: August 26-30, 2019 -Opening reception and award presentation: September 7, 2019 from 5pm - 7pm -Exhibition dates: September 7 - October 5, 2019 -Pick up work: October 12, 2019 from 10am - 5pm at PaperWorkers Local |
Awards and Prizes:
First Place: $300 and a solo exhibition at PaperWorkers Local during 2020
Second Place: $150
Third Place: $75
First Place: $300 and a solo exhibition at PaperWorkers Local during 2020
Second Place: $150
Third Place: $75
|
About the Juror:
Hallie Ringle is the Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. She was formerly Assistant Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem where she curated Maren Hassinger: Monuments, Firelei Baez: Joy Out of Fire, Frictions, Rico Gatson: Icons 2007-2017, Video Studio: Meeting Points, Palatable: Food and Contemporary Art, Salon Style and Concealed: Selections from the Permanent Collection. She is a fall 2018 Andy Warhol Curatorial Fellow. She obtained her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her MA from the University at Texas at Austin. |
|
Sponsors and Partners:
Ink Only II is sponsored by PaperWorkers Local, a 501(c)(3) non-profit artists' co-operative based around a printmaking facility in Birmingham, Alabama, in partnership with UAB's Department of Art and Art History, and with generous support from the Alabama Council on the arts - www.arts.state.al.us/
The members of PaperWorkers Local have pooled their resources to establish Birmingham's first printmaking studio. The cooperative also exhibits the work of local and emerging artists from around the country, as well as offering workshops in various media. More information can be found throughout our website or visit us at 2717 Seventh Avenue South, Suite 203, Birmingham, AL 35233.
The exhibition will be held at the UAB Department of Art and Art History's Project Space - www.uab.edu/art; an adaptive space that cultivates and supports meaningful creative investigation, interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship by providing an alternative platform for UAB students, faculty and community to engage teaching, research public service, and visual art practices.
Ink Only II is sponsored by PaperWorkers Local, a 501(c)(3) non-profit artists' co-operative based around a printmaking facility in Birmingham, Alabama, in partnership with UAB's Department of Art and Art History, and with generous support from the Alabama Council on the arts - www.arts.state.al.us/
The members of PaperWorkers Local have pooled their resources to establish Birmingham's first printmaking studio. The cooperative also exhibits the work of local and emerging artists from around the country, as well as offering workshops in various media. More information can be found throughout our website or visit us at 2717 Seventh Avenue South, Suite 203, Birmingham, AL 35233.
The exhibition will be held at the UAB Department of Art and Art History's Project Space - www.uab.edu/art; an adaptive space that cultivates and supports meaningful creative investigation, interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship by providing an alternative platform for UAB students, faculty and community to engage teaching, research public service, and visual art practices.