Jordan Faye Contemporary is pleased to present Nostalgia, a three-person group exhibition featuring the work of Baltimore photographer Paula Gately Tillman, Washington D.C. painter Treva Elwood, and Baltimore mixed media artist Alexander DiJulio. Nostalgia opens at February 4, 2010. There will be an Opening Reception from 6 - 9 pm at Jordan Faye Contemporary, 1401 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230.
Nostalgia is about three artists and how they all weave wistful memories of the past. Paula Gately Tillman, uses her photographs and those of childhood in which, collected and installed portray her perspectives of New York City during the 80’s & Europe over the last several decades. Presented as two room-sized photo installations. Treva Elwood uses family photographs to inspire her extended self-portrait paintings. Ms. Elwood’s “mother, maternal grand parents, as well as (my) maternal great-grand parents are pictured here.” Alexander DiJulio presented favorably in The Salon Series and so, we are looking forward to his new sculptural installation in this upcoming exhibition. Intuition indicates that these three artists when all viewed during Nostalgia will transport you to << an autre place >>. We look forward to having them in the gallery during the month of February with the closing of their show in mid- March.
Beginning in the 1980’s Paula Gately Tillman was taking photographs. Exhibiting here ‘Things that I Love’, ‘NYC the 80’s’ and two special videos (as detailed below)
“The two videos on display are compilations of scenes edited from Nelson [Sullivan]’s original footage. My edits of his raw, documentary-style video represent a celebration of a particular time and particular place in which I created work among a loosely collaborating community of artists. It was a special dynamic that created lasting relationships that have made it possible for me to expand the show in this way.”
Gately Tillman has shown at the Creative Alliance. Tillman's punk club work has been exhibited in Germany. Images of Ru Paul have been published in his autobiography "Letting it all Hang Out", by Hyperion. An image of Ru Paul will be used to illustrate an article, "Serious Play: Transgender and the Relationship between Performance and Idenity in the Life Writing of RuPaul and Kate Bornstein" by Elizabeth Schewe. In Biography (32.4) Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly is published by University of Hawaii Press for Biographical Research.
Treva Elwood is a self-taught artist born and raised on the central coast of California. Ms. Elwood has been living and working in Washington DC since 2006. It was at DC’s Art-O-Matic in 2009, that first I came across her work. She was recently invited to participate in the G-40 Summit in Arlington, VA. This is her first three-person show with Jordan Faye Contemporary.
Alexander DiJulio grew up just outside Philadelphia, in Delaware. In 2011, DiJulio will graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art with his BFA in Sculpture. His sculptural installations were included as part of the exhibition Access Alley in Baltimore, MD. DiJulio has been awarded a semester abroad through an exchange program between School of the Visual Arts in New York and MICA. Currently he’s living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
NYC 80’s: From the Artist's Archive
"In the early 1980's I met Brant Mewborn, then a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine, who guided me to work as publicity photographer for Funtone U.S.A. It was through shooting publicity photos for Funtone that I developed a small body of personal work of Ru Paul. I photographed the NY downtown glitterati-artists, drag queens and musicians who frequented the area around 14th Street, Thompkins Park, and CBGB. At night I would go out camera in hand with my friend Nelson Sullivan. He was one of the early video artist's documenting the NY scene. I was included in his video scenes along with Michael Musto, Brant Mewborn, Ru Paul, along with artist's Keith Haring and Andy Warhol". - Paula Gately Tillman
"I loved living in New York City during the 80's. It was the "art world", not the art market of today. The city was a constant scene, I was in a circle of talented artist's, musicians, with back stage passes. Those days were loose, everyone was creating on the spot. I was working with a more intimate approach of a photo-diarist. Telling my story with the camera". - Paula Gately Tillman
