LYNNE TOBIN | Solo Exhibition: CASTELLO 780 | Fondamenta San Giuseppe 780 · VENICE, Italy
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LYNNE TOBIN | Solo Exhibition, CASTELLO 780 | Fondamenta San Giuseppe 780 · VENICE, Italy
"Simplifying the drawing process to its basic elements allows a truer and more immediate expression to emerge. For me, this is when drawing becomes like poetry"
                                          -  Lynne Tobin

With string and Sumi ink, Lynne Tobin's black and white drawings explore mark-making inherent in textures and expressed by gesture. Spontaneous marks made by threads and rope saturated in ink are in contrast to her careful linear repeating patterns.Tobin's immediate world, every-day rituals, and meditation practice inspire the rhythms in her work. In  her Threads  series, the artist's drawing process is a meditation; the repetition of each gesture builds on the one before creating harmonic relationships of large sweeping patterns composed of smaller, massed marks. The result is a layer that hangs like a misty Borealis, dividing one shimmering realm from the next. 

 

In Tobin's scrolls, the artist allows the flow of the  elongated paper to reach from the ceiling to the floor curving gently against the wall.This undulation allows for the artist's marks to interact with the space while the scrolls gently shift with the ambient light.The strong linear elements and the rich flowing marks in Tobin's meditative drawings compel the viewer to feel the power of space. 

 

About her work, Lynne Tobin writes:

 

"My recent work explores the language of drawing, using thread, string, and ink to create work on paper. Searching for a freer, less self-conscious way of drawing a line, I began dipping flexible materials into ink, investigating their physical properties. The first drawings were done on a horizontal surface. I then began working vertically on the wall, observing the impact of gravity-how things hang in space-and the tension between something fixed and something falling. I became fascinated by the unrestrained marks and the random happenings created by materials saturated in ink.

I am inspired by the materials, rhythms, and patterns experienced in daily life and in crafts traditionally associated with women, such as stitching, mending, and weaving. The repetitive patterns are reminiscent of textiles-like threads on a loom woven together on paper.

 

Working with these simple materials on paper is a meditation. The tactile surfaces and repeating linear references invite the viewer into an internal space and quiet realm. Simplifying the drawing process to its basic elements allows a truer and more immediate expression to emerge. For me, this is when drawing becomes like poetry."

 

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Media Contact: Jen Dragon | crosscontemporaryprojects@gmail.com

Castello 925 

Fondamenta San Giuseppe

Sestiere Castello,780

30122 Venezia, IT

+39 348 410 8263 

EXHIBITION; 8 Agosto - 8 Settembre, 2024

VERNISSAGE: 10 Agosto, 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 

FINISSAGE: 8 September, 2024   17:00 - 19:00

OPENING RECEPTION: August 10, 2024, 5:00 - 7:00PM

CLOSING RECEPTION: September 8, 2024 5:00 - 7:00PM

4 pagine con immagini | 4 pages with images

ENGLISH

Venice, Italy: Castello 925 presents works on paper by Lynne Tobin. The exhibition opens 8 August with a reception for the artist from 17:00 - 19:00 and runs through 8 September, 2024.

With string and Sumi ink, Lynne Tobin's black and white drawings explore mark-making inherent in textures and expressed by gesture. Spontaneous marks made by threads and rope saturated in ink are in contrast to her careful linear repeating patterns.Tobin's immediate world, every-day rituals, and meditation practice inspire the rhythms in her work. 

 

About the Artist: Lynne Tobin is a mixed-media artist who lives and works in New York State’s Hudson Valley region. Previously, Tobin maintained a studio and exhibited extensively in the Providence, RI area including the Chazen Gallery, The Krause Gallery, The Mill Gallery (Pawtucket, R.I.) and the New Bedford Art Museum (New Bedford, MA). Recently, she was in a two-person exhibition together with Millicent Young at Castello 925. This current solo show at Castello 925’s other venue at 780 is the artist’s first exhibition in Venice.

 

About CASTELLO 925:

Castello 925 is a multi-disciplinary, non-profit gallery which serves as a works that were built elsewhere, yet also a space where new ideas and new co-operations come to life. Castello 925 provides room to live and breathe — not just for exhibitions, but support for the everyday life of an artist, the quietude of  a writer’s research, or the exchange between passionate art-seekers and collectors.crucible for the visual arts, literature and culture. Founder Luca Caldironi envisioned a space dedicated to creativity, or rather cre-activity. Castello 925 is a gallery with two venues: one at 925 and the other at 780, where experimental expressions of all kinds come to meet, collaborate, improvise, produce and construct; a place to present “finished” works that were built elsewhere, yet also a space where new ideas and new co-operations come to life. Castello 925 provides room to live and breathe — not just for exhibitions, but support for the everyday life of an artist, the quietude of  a writer’s research, or the exchange between passionate art-seekers and collectors.

ITALIANO

(Venezia, VE): Castello 925 presenta opere su carta di Lynne Tobin. La mostra si apre l'8 agosto con un ricevimento per l'artista dalle 17:00 alle 19:00 e durerà fino all'8 settembre 2024.

Utilizzando spago e inchiostro Sumi, i disegni in bianco e nero di Lynne Tobin esplorano la creazione di segni insiti nelle trame ed espressi attraverso i gesti. Segni spontanei fatti da fili e corde saturi di inchiostro sono in contrasto con i suoi attenti schemi ripetuti lineari. Il mondo immediato di Tobin, i rituali quotidiani e la pratica della meditazione ispirano i ritmi del suo lavoro. 

Informazioni sull'artista: Lynne Tobin è un'artista multimediale che vive e lavora nella regione della Hudson Valley, nello Stato di New York. In precedenza, Tobin manteneva uno studio ed esponeva ampiamente nell'area di Providence, RI, tra cui la Chazen Gallery, la Krause Gallery, la Mill Gallery (Pawtucket, R.I.) e il New Bedford Art Museum (New Bedford, MA). Recentemente ha partecipato a una mostra personale insieme a Millicent Young al Castello 925. Questa mostra personale in corso presso l'altra sede del Castello 925 al 780 è la prima mostra dell'artista a Venezia.

Informazioni su CASTELLO 925:

Castello 925 è una galleria multidisciplinare e senza scopo di lucro che funge da crogiolo per le arti visive, la letteratura e la cultura. Il fondatore Luca Caldironi ha immaginato uno spazio dedicato alla creatività, o meglio alla cre-attività. Castello 925 è una galleria con due sedi: una al 925 e l'altra al 780, dove espressioni sperimentali di ogni tipo si incontrano, collaborano, improvvisano, producono e costruiscono; un luogo dove presentare opere “finite” che sono state realizzate altrove, ma anche uno spazio dove prendono vita nuove idee e nuove collaborazioni. Castello 925 offre spazio per vivere e respirare, non solo per le mostre, ma anche per il sostegno alla vita quotidiana di un artista, alla quiete della ricerca di uno scrittore o allo scambio tra appassionati cercatori d'arte e collezionisti.

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Lynne Tobin, Attachments

2023, ink and rope on paper
42”H x 32”W | 106.5 cm x 81.25 cm

 

Lynne Tobin, Black Rain,2017
ink on paper
96”H x 42.5”W | 244 cm x  108 cm

Lynne Tobin, Threads #4

2023, ink on paper,
24”H x 18”W | 61 cm x 45.75 cm

Lynne Tobin, Unstrung
2023, ink on paper
15”H x 11.5”W | 38 cm x 29.25 cm

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