Reception: Friday, October 22nd from 5 - 8 PM
Word Revolt Art Gallery Inc. 1249 Mayport Rd. Atlantic Beach, FL 32233
Word Revolt Art Gallery Inc. 1249 Mayport Rd. Atlantic Beach, FL 32233
Beyond the Shelf
Introducing an exhibition of Book Art, Text, Narrative & Storytelling. This show features art inspired by words and the very books that bind them from all media & takes on the theme, including collage, illustration, video art, fibers, sculpture, painting, photography and more by local & international artists. After all, are we not here to push the boundaries of art and meaning? Find out what creativity lives Beyond the Shelf!
The work of local artists will be on display in the gallery along with projection of international & national artworks at the exhibition reception and online in Word Revolt VR, virtual reality video exhibition show and digital catalogue.
The work of local artists will be on display in the gallery along with projection of international & national artworks at the exhibition reception and online in Word Revolt VR, virtual reality video exhibition show and digital catalogue.
Catalogue of Works:
Featured Artists
Odette Graskie
“My artistic practice revolves around connection and moments of intimacy explored in drawing and paper. Paper is a mode of connection. In my artworks every face belongs to another, always connecting. My artist books contain many secret stories – images and words hidden in cracks, secret pockets and folded pages, lost to anyone who does not pay attention. Some artworks could contain poetry, others inspired by plantlife, astronomy, or secret libraries. Faces are of those that have crossed my path, moments of intimate snippets taken from people who might not have noticed me at all.”
Odette Graskie (b.1993) is a South African artist represented by Berman Contemporary in Johannesburg. She works with paper and drawing. Her artworks revolve around human interaction and connection. Graskie is currently doing her MA(FA) at the University of Johannesburg. She has had artist residencies in Guernsey, London and Poland. Her recent exhibitions include group shows at the Camden Arts Centre in London, and the Winter Show at Berman Contemporary.
Odette Graskie, Looking For Moss I
Artist Book with Handmade Paper, Fabriano, Cotton Rag, Awagami and Indian Sunn Hemp Paper with Thread
17 7/10 × 11 4/5 × 2 2/5 in, USD $1835
www.odettegraskie.com
Instagram @ohdette
“My artistic practice revolves around connection and moments of intimacy explored in drawing and paper. Paper is a mode of connection. In my artworks every face belongs to another, always connecting. My artist books contain many secret stories – images and words hidden in cracks, secret pockets and folded pages, lost to anyone who does not pay attention. Some artworks could contain poetry, others inspired by plantlife, astronomy, or secret libraries. Faces are of those that have crossed my path, moments of intimate snippets taken from people who might not have noticed me at all.”
Odette Graskie (b.1993) is a South African artist represented by Berman Contemporary in Johannesburg. She works with paper and drawing. Her artworks revolve around human interaction and connection. Graskie is currently doing her MA(FA) at the University of Johannesburg. She has had artist residencies in Guernsey, London and Poland. Her recent exhibitions include group shows at the Camden Arts Centre in London, and the Winter Show at Berman Contemporary.
Odette Graskie, Looking For Moss I
Artist Book with Handmade Paper, Fabriano, Cotton Rag, Awagami and Indian Sunn Hemp Paper with Thread
17 7/10 × 11 4/5 × 2 2/5 in, USD $1835
www.odettegraskie.com
Instagram @ohdette
Yahel Halevi
Halevi ‘s artist statement, “My path in the art world began with drawing and painting . Over the years, I have had growing interest in new ways to use materials, such as diluted paints, destroyed brushes, and ground up media. Today, I am interested in conveying my visual interpretation of the world around me, through art installations that evoke a holistic and exciting experience to take the viewer on a journey in another world, to connect from their personal point of view.” Yahel Halevi, Self Portrait With Poems
Collage on paper 63 paper panels of 20 by 20 cm (140 by 180 cm total) https://yahelhaleviyh.wixsite.com/yahelhalevi Age 21 (Isreal) |
Fazar Roma Agung Wibisono, is a painter from Bandung, Indonesia who studied fine arts in college, with seven years as a professional gallery artist in Yogyakarta, Indosnesia. Wibisono’s artistic practice consists of working initially on paper or canvas using watercolors, oil paint or acrylic and has branched out to include painting on other media such as used skateboard decks, milk cartons and wall murals. Each series is composed of technical styling, surrealist cartoons, lowbrow art, symbolism and semi-realistic techniques.
Fazar R. A. Wibisono Proletariat dan Taring-taring Baja #10 Watercolor on paper, 21.8 x 14.5 cm @fazar.r.a.wibisono https://fazarwibisono.simdif.com (Indonesia) |
Kateryna Repa “I see you ... I love you ...”
Ink on paper (Odesa, Ukraine) https://katerynarepa.wixsite.com/repa |
Kateryna Repa, born in 1979, graduated from Odessa Hydrometeorological University in Ukraine. Repa, works with painting, graphics, media art, sculpture, found object art and photography. She also participates in personal and collective exhibitions worldwide, in London, Berlin, Italy, USA, South Korea, and Ukraine. Her works are in private collections and a museum in South Korea and the Philippines. In 2016, she published the print and e-book, The Adventures of Lucinda, nominated for the National Literary Award "Writer of the Year 2015".
This 2020 Project, "I see you ... I love you ... ", is about human empathy and tolerance and acceptance of different races and peoples. The project was created under the influence of the situation of interracial discrimination, a pandemic of all the ensuing external and internal hatred associated with the incidents in 2020. Gives you thought about the possibility of a degree of humanity in each of the living people. |
Andre Pace
About this work, Andre says, “My goal is to open a dialogue about art, not to change someone’s point of view. I think that art is always modern, just the manner is different from the old masters.” Andre Pace is an American artist originally from New York, currently living in Arizona. He works primarily in oil and pastel on thin archival cotton paper. Andre’s style can be most closely associated with Jean-Michel Basquiat, although, in his own words, his art is mainly influenced by old masters such as El Greco, Winslow Homer, and John Singer Sargent. The artist describes his work as a joyful experience, which contributes to a long conversation between artists and art lovers. Andre has participated in numerous art exhibitions and auctions throughout the US and abroad.
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Andre Pace
EYEWITNESS (Paint what you see {Magic Beans}) £ 8,000 (New York, USA) |
Augusto Poderosi was born in Rome. He works eclectically in the fields of figurative and audiovisual arts, starting in the laboratories of scenography at Cinecitta Studios. A sculptor, painter and restorer to the holy see, he realizes numerous artistic patronage in the Basilicas of for the Vatican City and various other Roman churches. Poderosi is also a collaborator of famous advertising agencies of the caliber of Movie Magic, working with well known Italian directors as choreographer in combat film and actor with great passion for cinematography.
These oil paintings are from part of a film script the artist is working on titled, The Infinite Stories. Augusto Poderosi Al Hakawati Oil on canvas & wood 140 x 100 The Infinite Stories Series (Rome, Italy) www.augustopoderosi.it |
Marianne Slevin graduated with a First Class Honors Degree and a Masters in European Fine Art. Slevin is a visual artist, based in Doolin in the West of Ireland, where she opens her studio to the public and holds exhibitions and events. Working in the community showing art where it is usually not experienced, as well as in galleries and traditional exhibition spaces across the country. About this artwork, Slevin says, “Text based works have always played a key role in my interdisciplinary practice. Crossing boundaries between poetry, drawing, long distance walking, working with found objects, artist's books, interventions and site specific ephemeral works. Words, whether they have been written or painted on objects, washed by the sea, blown by the wind, appear or disappear with the rain, consistently feature in my work.” |
Marianne Slevin, Haiku on Found Bog Road Rubble
@imartingaround (Doolin, Ireland) |
Irina Novikova is an artist from Minsk Belarus. Enjoy this excerpt from Irina’s writing regarding the series, Who! Mouse…
“Who am I..? Why am I here ...? I am a small fluffy beast with soft claws of white paws, my fluffiness and my tail ... It's like a snake's tongue, almost naked and peeled, it constantly hurts, because there is a thickening down there and I want to bite it off ... There is such a small curvature, like the one that I run every day, walk along the edge of pain, trying to deceive myself with the sincere prudence of a sparkling maiden ... I am so small that those lights are on the side where I am not allowed to enter anymore than me ... Once I saw myself, in the reflection of a splinter on the floor ...How I realized this, I did not understand ..And I also remember a little girl who stroked my head and her hair was long and silky, and she also had flowers, huge and white, almost glowing in the green meadow ..
Irina Novikova
Who! Mouse… #1 Ink gel pen on paper 21 x 15 |
CAS is an artist collective created in 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It emerged as a medium for the creation, editing and dissemination of sound art, visual poetry, video-art and photography, as well as an open platform for experimentation and fusion with other arts.
Artists: Matías Ygielka, Damián Alférez, Andres García 70 x 50 cm Printmaking USD $30 @antidogma.cas (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a multimedia artist who reimagines interactions and “feel-osophical” experiences of the body. In 2020, Kim received the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award and the Black Cube Video Art Award. She is the author of "Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs" 2019 and received a PhD in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas. She lives and works in the company of neighboring birds, squirrels, and wild rabbits of Texas.
This video work, titled,"Soul (Re)cycling with Raccoons in Human-Time" (2020) was created while in self-isolation during the pandemic. The piece was inspired from taking short nightly walks around the block and sharing moments of pause, locking eyes with numerous nocturnal scavengers in the neighborhood dumpster. Laura Hyunjhee Kim Soul (Re)cycling with Raccoons in Human-Time Video / Stills (Texas, USA) Full video: https://vimeo.com/407823169 |
Teresa Cook is born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. She is an Abstract Architectural Watercolor artist and has been painting watercolor since 2012. She obtained a Bachelors in Fine Arts from UNF in 2012. Over the last 8 years, she has been traveling to different countries as well as around her native city. She has always found pleasure in the landscapes and buildings that have been created over time. Each of her watercolor and ink paintings are created on a smooth paper called, "Yupo", are meant to capture a moment in time. She just traveled to Amsterdam for the 2019 Urban Sketchers Symposium, capturing the Old and New Amsterdam. She wants to share the world through her eyes and offers Watercolor Workshops.
Teresa Cook San Marco Books and More Watercolor & ink on Yupo 5"x 6"Framed in 10" x 10" $200 https://www.teresacook.net/art |
Emi Kimbrough, @emikimbroughart on Instagram. This is a piece from a narrative illustration class I took at school, and Gymnosperm Spread Left & Gymnosperm Spread Right, are illustrations from a potential educational kids' book about non-blooming plants I am considering writing.
Emi Kimbrough Gymnosperm Spread Right Marker on paper 9 x 12 in. NFS |
Rebecca Campbell, Broken Thoughts
Watercolor, Acrylic, Ink, Resin, Paper on Wood 11 x 11.5 x 2.5 in., $150 |
Rebecca Campbell was born from a gene pool that consisted of many artists, writers, and eccentrics making it no surprise when she headed towards a creative pathway. Her interest in color and shape continued on through childhood and into secondary education. Rebecca currently resides and creates from her home studio in Jacksonville, Fl.
Rebecca received her B.F.A. in Fine Arts with a focus in Ceramics from the University of Florida in 2010. She has a minor in Education. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally. Art making has always been a means of therapy and essential to Rebecca's well being. She hopes to pass this easily accessible benefit on to others through various avenues in her life. Rebecca works privately with special needs individuals in her home studio. https://www.rebeccacampbellart.com/ |
Dave Hull is a fine artist working in the discipline of multiplane photography, living in Montana, USA. The multiplane camera is traditionally a motion picture camera used in animation that moves pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds and distances. This creates a three-dimensional effect. Walt Disney Studios used a multiplane camera on Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Pinocchio (1940).
Hull says, “For my art, I use a multiplane in my photography. The image is created by the camera seeing the objects formed on the layers of glass. Each image takes about 50 hours to produce.” |
Dave Hull, Harpoon Multiplane photography
Materials: clay, paper, wire, beads, paint, shark toy, ship model, cotton, toothpick Ratio 1.78.1 (16 x 9 scale) (Montana, USA) www.thedavehull.com |
Tonsenia Yonn is a self-taught, mixed media artist whose love of her natural surroundings, organic textures and the unexpected combine to create an innovative and unique style. Born and raised in rural Georgia, she began painting at the age of 15 and credits much of this early exposure to the environment as a source of inspiration, creating artwork for a variety of interior design projects.
Tonsenia likes taking an original form and presenting it in an unusual, distorted and often abstract way. She moved to Neptune Beach, FL in 2006, where the natural beach setting continues to influence her work, as do her prior travels and love of using recycled materials. |
Tonsenia Yonn, Portals of an Artistic Mind
Art installation, 29 Ovals at 11” x 9” $125 each
Art installation, 29 Ovals at 11” x 9” $125 each
Riddhima Puri is a young artist living in Jacksonville Florida, attending the Bolles School
Riddhima Puri
Late Night at the Library
Ink on paper
Triptych
1st: 7x5 2nd: 5x7.4 3rd: 8 3/4x
Annabelle Usher is a free-lance artist and former designer at Heartwood Pine Floors by Tim Taylor. Usher went to North Carolina School of the Arts and studied Design and Production and Theatre at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Her work is often nature or family inspired.
This series of paintings tells a story her friend Victoria & her garden. A. L. Usher Victoria in Her Garden Mixed Media on canvas 36 x 24 in. $400 |
Tonia Kimbrough is a creative living in Jacksonville Florida and mother to some amazing emerging artists. She is the President of Kimbrough Communications, a firm specializing in writing and editing feature articles for magazines and custom publishing projects, corporate communication programs, advertising campaigns and web sites.
Tonia Kimbrough
Frog on the Town Linocut print 9 x 12 in. $150 |
Kimberly Beaulieu is an artist in Jacksonville Florida, with extensive gallery & creative experience. This series was inspired by the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. There are many who live in "Fear" because of an abusive relationship. Some are able to find help and have "Faith" that they will have the "Fortitude" to leave these situations and grow into a strong individual.
Kim Beaulieu Fear, Faith, Fortitude Mixed media, acrylic paint, resin, foam core on canvas Triptych, 20 x 24 in. each |
Deborah Reid is an accomplished artist and an AV rated attorney with over 36 years experience.
“I was standing on a dock in the East River when the towers collapsed. I stood in the clouds of debris that rocketed to the river not knowing what they were. I put my sunglasses on, turned my face away and waited for a ferry and an explanation.”
On the morning of 9/11/2001, I was in my office at 120 Broadway. The shock wave from the second plan hit me in my solar plexus. I was evacuated from my building and walked to the East River. I stood in rocketing clouds of debris from the fallen towers before l went home on a ferry.
I returned to work the following week. For the next year I walked round and around the shifting perimeter of the frozen zone. I read the obituaries, collected images of what I saw from newspapers and put them aside.
A few years later, I collaged the images, life drawing sketches and beautiful papers to document my experience. 9/11 reSCENE distills, juxtaposes and embellishes segments of the pages from my original compilation. Parts of later works are included. Like memory the images are random, selective, accurate and abstract. They are 9/11 re-seen. The 20 images commemorate 20 years.
“I was standing on a dock in the East River when the towers collapsed. I stood in the clouds of debris that rocketed to the river not knowing what they were. I put my sunglasses on, turned my face away and waited for a ferry and an explanation.”
On the morning of 9/11/2001, I was in my office at 120 Broadway. The shock wave from the second plan hit me in my solar plexus. I was evacuated from my building and walked to the East River. I stood in rocketing clouds of debris from the fallen towers before l went home on a ferry.
I returned to work the following week. For the next year I walked round and around the shifting perimeter of the frozen zone. I read the obituaries, collected images of what I saw from newspapers and put them aside.
A few years later, I collaged the images, life drawing sketches and beautiful papers to document my experience. 9/11 reSCENE distills, juxtaposes and embellishes segments of the pages from my original compilation. Parts of later works are included. Like memory the images are random, selective, accurate and abstract. They are 9/11 re-seen. The 20 images commemorate 20 years.
Program & Curatorial Director: Theresa Rykaczewski
Word Revolt Celebrated for her contemporary impressionistic style of bold impasto landscapes and occasional figurative works, Theresa’s artwork transfixes the viewer through a dynamic sense of color and atmosphere that explores what it means to connect to nature during our highly saturated digital age. Theresa Rykaczewski is an American painter and non-profit gallery director in Atlantic Beach, Florida at Word Revolt Art Gallery and Adjunct Professor of Art at Jacksonville University Theresa has been painting and teaching art classes for the last ten years including community based and professional skills workshops, university and museum lectures. Theresa has exhibited in over 40 juried exhibitions and curated over 30 exhibitions, with a penchant for contemporary art, history and cultivating a vibrant arts community. |
Founder and President of Word Revolt Art Gallery Inc.
Todd Rykaczewski
About Todd Rykaczewski
Todd Rykaczewski is an accomplished writer, self taught mixed media artist and congressionally awarded photographer. After moving to Jacksonville in 2013, Rykaczewski continued following his passions of writing, photography and art which manifested into realizing his dream to open Word Revolt Art Gallery in 2017, a brick and mortar non profit exhibition gallery and studio in Atlantic Beach Florida, dedicated to hosting 100% free monthly events to benefit creatives, charities and the community.
Todd Rykaczewski
Levered Leisure
Poem
Artist Statement
“In simple explanation, there is always a reason for song or heroism. It’s too few of a moment we have both.”
In acknowledgement, this poem is in response to the Great Resignation.
Todd Rykaczewski
About Todd Rykaczewski
Todd Rykaczewski is an accomplished writer, self taught mixed media artist and congressionally awarded photographer. After moving to Jacksonville in 2013, Rykaczewski continued following his passions of writing, photography and art which manifested into realizing his dream to open Word Revolt Art Gallery in 2017, a brick and mortar non profit exhibition gallery and studio in Atlantic Beach Florida, dedicated to hosting 100% free monthly events to benefit creatives, charities and the community.
Todd Rykaczewski
Levered Leisure
Poem
Artist Statement
“In simple explanation, there is always a reason for song or heroism. It’s too few of a moment we have both.”
In acknowledgement, this poem is in response to the Great Resignation.
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We are proud to have been sponsored with a grants and support from the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville & the City of Jacksonville, the Florida Department of State, and the City of Atlantic Beach.
We are proud to have been sponsored with a grants and support from the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville & the City of Jacksonville, the Florida Department of State, and the City of Atlantic Beach.