Gene Ray George and Sarah Haney with Jimmy Sellars

September 29 – October 16, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, September 30th, 6 – 9 p.m.
First Friday Artwalk: October 7th, 6 – 9 p.m.

In the CORE Main Gallery
Gene Ray George and Sarah Haney with Jimmy Sellars

Foci – New work by Gene Ray George

Gene Ray George – Untitled – online gallery

As my artistic process is a series of experiments, the scientific term Foci, (multiple focuses), is particularly appropriate for this body of work. The blending of painting and collage is my multiple-processes-as-foci. Creating visual texture and depth in a two-dimensional plane is my goal, resulting in multiple layers and repeated images with a non-literal narrative in the vein of Dada and Fluxus. Shape, color, and pattern, text and images – all are used with equal importance. Many of these pieces have a luminous, printmaking-like quality. Viewers are encouraged to postulate their own theories of meaning in these works.

Parallel Play – Photographs by Sarah Haney and Jimmy Sellars

“I know you- you’re the GI Joe guy!” “You’re the Barbie girl!” Ever since this first exchange between Sarah Haney and Jimmy Sellars, the two photographers have talked about showing their work together. This fall, the conversation is becoming a reality at CORE New Art Space.

Both known for working with dolls, the artists have very different visions. Haney’s photographs of Barbie and Ken create a darkly comic narrative of life in the Dream House; Sellars’ GI Joe photos are ambiguous images in which the action figures seem to be struggling with some deep emotion. “The idea for the show was to have our images play off each other,” says Haney. “We have such similar starting points with our work, but we take it in such different directions- I think it will be interesting to see the images side by side.”