{"id":5131,"date":"2016-05-11T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/h\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:26:13","slug":"with-your-feet-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/with-your-feet-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"WITH YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;WITH YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selected works are in the wide range of materials; form marble to wood, through ceramic and paper.<br \/>\nAll are made White on White with a goal to emphasize the GESTURE and the PROCESS that comes before the work itself.<br \/>\n\u200bDate:<br \/>\nMay 14th-15th, 2016. 12-7PM<\/p>\n<p>Location:<br \/>\n66 Main Street Space #A Yonkers NY<br \/>\nPart of Yonkers Art Weekend<\/p>\n<p>Participating Artists:<br \/>\nAvra Messe<br \/>\nAmy Wickard<br \/>\nGorazd Poposki<br \/>\nGareb Shamus<br \/>\nJovana Djuric<br \/>\nSlavko Djuric<\/p>\n<p>The unifying concept behind the selected works is the belief that only through digging deeper<br \/>\ninto the medium itself one gets grounded. As artists work to own the process through the physical<br \/>\nlabor they get into the body of the work itself.<\/p>\n<p>Carving, cutting, engraving, slitting, burrowing and breaking are just some of the gestures<br \/>\nand methods that they use to get closer and into the material itself.<\/p>\n<p>Each artist travels through the process with their own vocabulary of concerns,<br \/>\nbut their starting point stays the same: the involvement and penetration with the material itself.<br \/>\nAs if to create the stronger bonds and make a more lasting imprint these artists work to<br \/>\ncreate deeper and more permanent marks.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the exhibition is not only to present the created object,<br \/>\nbut also to embody the physicality of the process itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/h\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Your-Feet-on-the-Ground-Statement-May-26.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5133\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5133\" src=\"\/h\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Your-Feet-on-the-Ground-Statement-May-26.jpg\" alt=\"With-Your-Feet-on-the-Ground-Statement-May-26\" width=\"744\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Your-Feet-on-the-Ground-Statement-May-26.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Your-Feet-on-the-Ground-Statement-May-26-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Your-Feet-on-the-Ground-Statement-May-26-768x460.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Your-Feet-on-the-Ground-Statement-May-26-1024x614.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Your-Feet-on-the-Ground-Statement-May-26-600x360.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unifying concept behind the selected works is the belief that only through digging deeper<br \/>\ninto the medium itself one gets grounded. As artists work to own the process through the physical<br \/>\nlabor they get into the body of the work itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}