From RIVER HOUSE ARTS
River House Arts will host Co-Worker Gallery curators Jordan Buschur and Crystal Gale Phelps for their latest exhibition, “Double Time. “
Eleven vignettes, or micro two-person exhibitions, featuring 22 artists are being presented with works ranging from fiber to painting to ceramics.
”Double Time” runs from May 21 through July 2 at River House Arts, 425 Jefferson Ave. in Toledo. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, May 21 from 5 – 8 p.m.
Originally founded in the corner of an office in an arts organization in Toledo, Co-Worker Gallery camps out in existing spaces to offer curated exhibitions to colleagues, visitors, and internet viewers. Each exhibition pairs artists working along similar themes to build connections and dialogue, much like two co-workers sharing an office. As active community builders, Co-Worker Gallery believes in the necessity of the arts to move dialogue forward, activate deep thinking, and make hearts throb.
For each Co-Worker exhibition, one co-founder selects an artwork and shares it with the other co-founder, who then curates an artwork in response to the first. Each takes turns leading the exhibitions and collaborating on every other aspect of the work. The dialogue as they curate the shows is mirrored in the dialogue that grows between each of the artworks as they exist in the gallery together. Simply put by Buschur and Phelps: “We talk to each other, they talk to each other too.”
Exhibiting artists are: Phoenix Brown (Milwaukee, WI), Jaqueline Cedar (Brooklyn, NY), Abby Cipar (Akron, OH), Cecile Chong (NY, NY) Carrie Day (Bowling Green, OH), Sarah Dolan (Washintgon, DC), Hale Ekinci (Chicago, IL), Marcy Ellis (Arizona), Jessica Freylinghusen (Hamtramck, MI), Echo Goff (Troy, NY), Adriane Herman (Portland, ME), Jane Kang Lawrence (NY, NY) Kirby Miles (Chattanooga, TN), Janet Nelson (Ypsilanti, MI), Tessa G. O’Brien (South Portland, ME), Rachel Ostrow (Brooklyn, NY), Keisha Prioleau-Martin (Queens, NY), Lina Puerta (NY, NY), Dayna Riemland (Ontario), Kate Sable (Washington, DC), Amy Sacksteder (Detroit, MI/Long Island City, NY), Suzanne Schireson (Providence, RI).
