“Medium” Presentations Schedule
Andy Smith of Visual Realia, LLC, has curated a set of seven arts presentations focusing on art mediums across two weeks, working in space provided by the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. All presentations are offered free of charge to the general public.
Andy Smith of Visual Realia, LLC, has curated a set of seven arts presentations focusing on art mediums across two weeks, working in space provided by the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. All presentations are offered free of charge to the general public. Presenters include:
Reagan Bitler
Ophelia Chambliss
Cultural Alliance of York County, Rita Whitney & Kelley Gibson
Kristin Kest
Mary Moores
Andy Smith
Terri Yacovelli
Seating is limited to twenty-four audience members; reservations are not necessary. Doors open at least thirty minutes before the scheduled session. Bookmark and revisit this page for updates.
Clay monoprints by Andrew Smith and Mitch Lyons will be displayed, and Smith's works will be available for purchase. Lyons, a Pennsylvanian, created the medium and its initial techniques.
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"Medium"
June 2nd - June 14th
PCA&D, 133 S Duke St, York, PA
Presented by PCA&D Work/Space & Andy Smith of Visual Realia, LLC
Schedule:
Monday, June 2nd - Set Up (Feel Free To Stop By!)
• Tuesday, June 3rd, 6:30 PM - Gourd Artwork, Reagan Bitler
• Wednesday, June 4th, 6:30 PM - Pastels, Mary Moores
• Thursday, June 5th, 6:30 PM - Cultural Alliance of York County: State of the Shifting Ground on Local, State, and Federal Cultural Support with Rita Whitney and Kelley Gibson
• Friday, June 6th, 5:00 - 9:00 PM - Clay Monoprint Exhibit, Works by Mitch Lyons (Medium Creator) & Andy Smith, Firefly Night Market
Saturday, June 7th, Closed
Sunday, June 8th - TBA
• Monday, June 9th, 6:30 PM - Bas-Relief as Pictorial Space & Clay Handbuilding, Kristin Kest
• Tuesday, June 10th, 6:30 - Encaustic Demonstration, Terri Yacovelli,
• Wednesday, June 11th, 6:30 PM - Acrylic on Pellon, Ophelia Chambliss
• Thursday, June 12th, 6:30 PM - Clay Monoprint Discussion & Demonstration, Andy Smith, with Works by Mitch Lyons, Medium Creator
• Friday, June 13th, 4:00 - 8:00 PM - Clay Monoprint Exhibit, Works by Mitch Lyons (Medium Creator) & Andy Smith
Royal Square Event
York Arts Week Kickoff
Saturday, June 14th - Tear Down (Feel Free To Stop By!)
Thanks to:
PCA&D - Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
PCA&D - Center for Creative Exploration
Natalie Lascek, Executive Director, Center for Creative Exploration
Alex Schaufele, Director of Exhibitions
Royal Square District
Susan Scofield/Hive
"PCA&D acknowledges that York has a thriving creative community with several organizations that offer meaningful support. One thing that is often lacking, even in well-supported arts communities, is spaces that allow creatives to experiment or workshop ideas that are not always revenue-generating. This has led us to rethink the use of the PCA&D York space and present it as a creative pop-up program called the PCA&D Work/Space, where artists and creatives can submit an application/proposal to use the space for an experimental action, event, or creative idea in two-week increments for a small fee.
The PCA&D Work/Space program will be creatively flexible, and we anticipate possible uses being group readings or writing sessions, studio space for testing out larger works, a space to view an evolving body of work at one time, or for temporary installations, etc. Our goal is to promote curiosity, prototyping, and exploration of new concepts within the York community."
Andrew Smith (Visual Realia, LLC) is found online at:
Lyons' Share Exhibit Opens September 5th at the Chester County Art Association
The Chester County Art Association shares the works of four active clay monoprint artists in their upcoming exhibit, “Lyons’ Share,” running from September 8th through the 24th. Learn more, including insights from the artists, in the Culture On The Line article linked here.
Culture On The Line article screenshot - © Culture On The Line and Andrew T. Smith
The Chester County Art Association shares the works of four active clay monoprint artists in their upcoming exhibit, “Lyons’ Share,” running from September 8th through the 24th. Learn more, including insights from the artists, in the Culture On The Line article linked here.
"The Lyons' Share"
Chester County Art Association
100 N Bradford Ave, West Chester, PA
Parking Available On-Site.
chestercountyarts.org
September Gallery Hours:
Monday-Friday: 10 AM - 5 PM
Saturday: 10 AM - 4 PM
Closed Sundays
Artists:
Steve Koelsch (skoelsch3@yahoo.com)
Robin Sesan (www.robinsesanart.com)
Andrew Smith (visualrealia.com)
Meredith Wakefield (mitchlyonsstudio.com)
Works by Mitch Lyons (mitchlyonsstudio.com)
"The Lyons' Share" opens on Thursday, September 5th, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM, at the Chester County Art Association in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The exhibit, featuring four clay monoprint artists plus representative works of Lyons, runs through September 24th. The Art Association is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that has served the region since 1931.
CanvasRebel Online Magazine Interview
The online magazine CanvasRebel interviewed me for this June 2024 article on my art process, work with grant programs and arts and culture-related nonprofits, and the shift in “work” as I left the full-time teaching world. The interview ends with some thoughts on the need for creatives to be the strongest supporters of each other and the arts and culture industry as a whole.
Find the article here.
Visual Realia Exhibit at York's Out Door Country Club
Visual Realia’s (Andrew T. Smith) exhibit at York’s Out Door Country Club
Thanks to the ongoing efforts of Creative York, I have an exhibit of approximately two dozen clay monoprints and photographs at York’s lovely Out Door Country Club. The exhibit runs through July 12th, 2024.
The hallway-based exhibit area naturally allows for sharing monoprints on one side and photographs on the other, essentially providing two mini-exhibits.
For more information on the exhibit, visit the online article on the Culture On The Line website. Works may be purchased here.
“Clay & Pigment” by Andrew T. Smith
Out Door Country Club
May 13 - July 13, 2024
1157 Detwiler Drive, York, PA
Enter Through the Center Doors
Curated by Creative York
All works copyright by Andrew T. Smith and/or Visual Realia, LLC.
Towns in Clay
Post-impressionistic towns are rising from my matrix.
Renaissance Town II, ©2023 Andrew T. Smith. Clay monoprint, acrylic, copper mica, and calcium carbonate.
As part of the "unentitled" exhibit, I worked along with both artists Ophelia Chambliss and Debbie Toluba to create multimedia works that utilized my clay monoprints along with their acrylic skills.
I've been using acrylics in my own works more often, as well. After pulling the clay monoprint, I've added clay slip and acrylic paint; the coverage of the two is quite different, as is the texture, adding some subtle but interesting variety.
I've always liked buildings and towns expressed with a simple, post-impressionistic feel, and I’ve been working with that concept in mind with these works.
In Renaissance Town I, shown below, the town was built around elements remaining on the clay slab (matrix) from previous prints, such as the green triangle, bottom center. The buildings are merely suggested in structure.
After pulling that print, additional work and details were added to the remaining imagery on the matrix, and calcium carbonate was utilized for the white stars. After pulling Renaissance Town II, shown at the top of the page, some acrylic paint was added, such as window detail. The buildings, while abstract, are more fully realized than in the first print.
View from the Plaza: Renaissance Town I, ©2023 Andrew T. Smith, Clay Monoprint & Calcium Carbonate
Finally, more concrete structural figures are used in Urban Moon, with acrylic paint used for the loose building edges and windows. The moon is comprised of the print, clay slip, and acrylic paint.
Urban Moon, ©2023 Andrew T. Smith, Clay Monoprint, Slip, Acrylic, & Mica.
Interested in seeing more of my prints online? Follow my personal or Visual Realia Facebook pages.
Copper and Collaboration in the "unentitled" Exhibit at Marketview Arts
Seven artists with unique mediums and techniques exhibit collaborative works in the unentitled exhibit at Market View Arts.
Early during the summer of 2022, several members of the Collective Rogue Arts (CRA), an informal group of area creatives, artists, and entrepreneurs in south-central Pennsylvania, began discussing an exhibit of works focusing on collaborations between two or more artists.
As visual artists, we typically join an exhibit with many predetermined specifics: location, dates, times, exhibit themes, mediums, etc., but in this case, the task was designed from the opposite direction. We opened up this possibility to fellow CRA members.
Seven artists started down the path without a confirmed exhibit location and with only the concept of working on these joint works. During initial meetings, the artists themselves determined the exhibit theme, randomly selected initial collaborative partners for artworks, and a common color (copper) to use on individual 12" x 12" tiles that each would create.
Art is a powerful and valuable tool for looking at social issues, and this exhibit's artists chose to examine challenges around entitlement via their unique mediums, techniques, and place in life. The result is shared with visitors to the gallery space at York's Marketview Arts, part of York College of Pennsylvania's Center for Community Engagement.
In addition to collaborative works, exhibit guests will see individual sample art from each contributor. We hope you join Reagan Bitler, Ophelia Chambliss, Jeannine Dabb, Kristin Kest, Nicole Osborne, Andrew Smith, and Debbie Toluba in considering our continuing role in issues revolving around the challenges for the unentitled.
“The Summoning of Everyman” 2023 © Nicole Osborne & Andrew Smith
The Summoning of Everyman
In the 15th Century play, The Summoning of Everyman, the Everyman character — representing humankind — tries in vain to get others to travel through life's journey by his side. In the end, he learns that he must take this voyage alone.
Some of us are in positions in life that come with supports and inherent systems that aid our journey through life. Others, however, are placed in a tier of those that society has deemed unentitled to companionship, the ability to move forward, and the capacity to discover self-improvement. Their journey is one of disappointment and loneliness.
Artists: Nicole Osborne & Andrew Smith
“Sabotage” 2023 © Kristin Kest & Andrew Smith
Sabotage
Art can be behind obstacles for some: lack of access to meaningful arts experiences is an entrenched part of poverty.
In Sabotage, a work by Kristin Kest and Andrew Smith, gallery visitors are asked to place one or more clay tiles into a smaller display area to represent those with significant barriers to participation in the arts. Adding or removing tiles in the larger central region as they wish, they may note that the systems to create fair, equitable arts access are uneven and broken — sometimes with intent.
“Clay & Play I and Clay & Play II” 2023 © Ophelia Chambliss & Andrew Smith
Clay & Play I and II
The Clay & Play artworks begin with a clay monoprint — clay slip clinging to pellon — which then is transformed with a second layer, this time of acrylic paint guided by a second artist. The top level of play was a series of continuous lines filled with non-contiguous color in the most random yet consistent pattern.
It's way too common in our societies for a less dominant (or unentitled) class to be forced to mold itself onto and into the seams and structures built by the majority or more established group.
Race, gender, age, orientation, and so on are all layers of our larger communities and can be challenging to traverse. Like the art mediums in collaborative art, a prosperous society is best achieved when we celebrate and understand our valued differences and unifying attributes.
Artists: Ophelia Chambliss & Andrew Smith
Medium: Acrylic Paint & Clay Monoprint on Pellon
“Redlined” by Andrew Smith, for the exhibit, unentitled. Copyright ©2023 by Andrew T. Smith.
Redlined
by Andrew Smith
Clay Monoprint, Slip, Copper Mica, LEDs, Copper Wire, Red Tape, Copper Foil, & 9 Volt Battery on Wood Panel
Each of the seven artists created a 12" x 12" tile touching on the shared unentitled theme, utilizing the color of copper to tie the individual artworks together cohesively.
Redlining has had a tremendous negative impact on our communities, the consequences of which can still be seen. In my tile, shown above, a clay monoprint serves as the circuit board, with some areas created with a copper-colored mica in addition to the clay slip. Copper wire is purposely cut heading into the redlined area, removing any potential benefits afforded to the rest of the board.
LEDs are active on the left but are nonfunctional within the redlined area.
unentitled
August 19th - October 21st, 2023
Curator: Ivy Rodgers
Marketview Arts
37 W. Philadelphia St.
York, Pennsylvania
All works copyright the artists and/or Andrew T. Smith