Saturday, March 1, 2014

ANGELA ZAMMARELLI

Ghostmaker’s Habitat or,

When You Build Your House, I Will Come By


March 10th - March 27th, 2014
Closing Reception/Gallery talk
Wed. March 26th
11am - 1pm - gallery talk begins at noon

Gallery hours: Mon. - Thurs. 10am - 6pm
Note: campus is closed for spring break week of March 17th


Artist’s Statement:

Ghostmaker’s Habitat or,
When You Build Your House, I Will Come By


Come this way.  
The chair is warmed up for you.  
I want to show you something, anything. Let’s pass it back and forth. 
It is unclear what I mean to you, can you understand that?
I am a coward and can’t speak until spoken to 
and even then the odds are slim.

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I painted floorboards because it felt good and grounding. 
I think this ghostmaker feels most comfortable under an eave. I do too. 

My work likes to focus around the intersection of fantasy and reality. How do the fantastical elements call upon reality to give them meaning? And how observations in reality can slip into the fantastical just by a certain framing. I like to use textiles and cardboard to construct structures that call back to childhood. But the inhabitants have not been children for a long time. The structures are used to house idiosyncratic objects and imagery particular to characters I am working with in my studio narrative.



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Artist’s Bio:

Angela Zammarelli was born in Worcester, MA in 1981.  Her favorite materials to work with currently are cardboard and textiles because of how ubiquitous and incredibly versatile they are. She received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, MN. She has attended residency programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC, and Three Walls in Chicago, IL.  In 2011 she was named one of the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s fellowship recipients in sculpture/installation.  Angela has a studio at 1 Cottage Street in Easthampton, MA and keeps an online sketchbook/blog at angela.zammarelli.com/blog 

Website: angela.zammarelli.com