The Dial

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Red Skelton loves Fuller Brushes, and you should too!

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Things are brewing over at the Dial. Stay tuned, and don’t forget your Fuller Brush for those hard-to-reach spots.

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Kenneth Dunne was born in Youngstown, Ohio. His recent photographs investigate the intersection of the artificial and the sublime in unremarkable surfaces and corners of the city streets. His work has been featured in group shows and in a solo exhibition at GAA Gallery in Provincetown, MA in 2016.

He currently lives in New York City.

kennethdunne.com

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Noah Gavrich was born in San Francisco, California 22 years ago. Although he  prefers to work in a variety of mediums, film and animation are central to his practice. Regardless of the medium, he is continually exploring his fascination with Americana. He is currently in his final year at the Rhode Island School of Design.

vimeo.com/nogsgrog

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Michael Vahrenwald is a photographer from Davenport, Iowa.  He lives in New York City.

His work has been shown at a variety of venues including the Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, The Carnegie Museum of Art, the Yale School of Architecture and the Nerman Museum.

michaelvahrenwald.com

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Audrey Ryan

Taking a cue from Fluxus, I apply a pseudo-scientific method to my art making. Projects begin as a series of material experiments that develop through multiple stages of research, editing, and revision. The resulting sculptures and events exhibit new potential functions for once familiar materials or objects. Apricots or false teeth become untethered from their everyday associations, and instead contribute to an evolving cosmology.

I fixate on specific personal memories that are then processed via a cold, calculated, and mechanical approach. As a result, the connection between my experiences and their representation is severed; leaving a façade that is clinical and detached. When the work is done I lose sight of the initial memory and focus more on how the object I made operates. Even when there are aspects that are static I envision the piece completing a task.

Documentation has a distinct role in my practice and is essential for preserving the original appearance of the work. Initially, the materials exhibit their integrity and appeal, but that original state slowly degrades over time and the work begins to collapse. From a missed event to food rotting, these aspects of decay accentuate the reality that life is not archival and affirms how I am not interested in refuting their properties.

Audrey Ryan was born in 1994 in Brooklyn, NY. From 2012 - 2016 she studied sculpture and photography at the Hartford Art School and now lives and works in New Haven, CT. Ryan's work has been the subject of group exhibitions including; 'Stamping Ground' at Art Lot in Brooklyn, NY; 'Alexander Goldfarb Exhibition' at Joseloff Gallery in Hartford, CT; 'BG01' at Chelsea Space in London, England; 'New Work' at Silpe Gallery in Hartford, CT; and 'The Sculpture Trail' at the Hill-Stead Museum.

audreyhryan.com

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Emily Cappa was born in Hartford, CT in 1982. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Hartford Art School in 2005 and MFA in New Media from Transart Institute in 2011. Her art interests are in building languages for documenting the everyday and raising awareness of the rich intellectual connections cultivated between aesthetic experience and decision-making in daily life. She is an adjunct faculty at Hartford Art School and works in the Office of Academic Administration at Yale School of Art.

emilycappa.com

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BELLADONNA | Rosemary Warren

Rosemary Warren is a photographer and writer, light enthusiast and documentarian of the personal. Her work seeks to represent and explore the communities that she is a part of: a family unit, the mental health system, California. Warren is currently working on a book about the relationship between her mother and younger brother in the years following his first psychotic episode.

She lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

rosywarren.com

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CRUDE MAGIC | Hugh Hopkins

“In the practice of analog photography, the light and energy of the sun flows through the world and is impressed into silver particles and colored dyes. In my work I let my mind and body become another, potent step in this transfer of energy. I use the photograph as an alchemical object that depicts the imagination alongside normal reality. My manipulations reveal the ways that we, as humans, alter our environment, both at an overt, environmental level, and through the basic act of perception.”

Hugh Hopkins is from Shumans, Pennsylvania, and grew up playing in the forest around his house.  He studied photography at Bard College, and currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.

hughhopkins.com

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DIVIDED LAND | Mari Kon

This project began in 2013 when I drove through El Paso and, for the first time, saw the split landscape, cut by the border wall and designated by the United States. From this moment, I decided to travel to all the major border cities and several border towns in both the United States and Mexico. This was accomplished in four trips between 2013-2017. I've become deeply interested in how borders effect landscapes and their inhabitants, and vice versa.

Mari Kon is currently based in New York City. She graduated from the Bard College Photography Department. She’s the co-founder of ROMAN NVMERALS, an art book publisher based in New York city, specializing in serialized photobooks. She’s had work published and featured by Group Study, Inpatient Press, and Ain’t Bad Magazine.

marikon.com