Sep 9–Oct 21, 2017
Simone Kearney (21), Pie Hole: New Works by Simone Kearney
About
Lighthouse Works is pleased to present Pie Hole: New Works by Simone Kearney, the third show this year in the Legacy Exhibition Series.Pie Hole is a meditation on the dinner table as a site of gathering and exchange. Often this overlooked daily ritual of dinner becomes a stage where much of our lives play out, a site for both communication and consumption. By installing three “tables” in the gallery, Kearney invites the viewer to join her for dinner. Monstrous ceramic utensils are both intimidating and humorous, while the empty tables seem lonely, perpetually waiting for the other guests to arrive. In addition to ceramics, Pie Hole features a series of aquatint and dry point prints. Here Kearney uses the shape of a circle to represent a form which might either be full or empty. This duality of the circle also represents presence and absence, and with this one cannot help but think of how the circle represents time, the start or finish of a dinner party, a mouth eating or talking, even the beginning or end of an eclipse.
The Legacy Program, at Lighthouse Works, seeks to create opportunities for our past fellows to re-engage with our community through an exhibition and reading series hosted at the gallery in the Annex.
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Bio
Simone Kearney (21) is a NY-based artist and writer whose practice primarily includes stone and ceramic sculpture, drawing, painting, textile and text. She has exhibited her work internationally, and her most recent work is currently on view in “Various Flowers” at Hirschl & Adler Modern in Manhattan, and at Underland Gallery in Brooklyn. Her chaplet, “A Big Salad (An Excerpt)" came out in 2022, and her first full-length book of poems, DAYS, came out in 2021, both with Belladonna Press. She has been artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, and Ragdale, among others. She was a 2019 Shandaken Fellow in Paintschool, and a 2014 NYFA Fellow. She currently teaches at Parsons School for Design.
