BEACH

“BEACH”

February 27 – March 2, 2012

Opening: Monday, February 27th 

Closing Reception: Friday, March 2nd, 5-8 PM

The Crossley Gallery is pleased to exhibit a selection of sculptures by Fine Art Seniors Kyle

Petreycik and Sean Pearson. This exhibition serves as an undergraduate thesis exhibition that

reflects each artist’s development in the past months in terms of artistic practice with a focus on

sculptural works.  Attention to materials, spatial relationships as well as ideas of escape serve as

a common conceptual thread between both artists’ work. 

 

Kyle Petreycik (b. 1989, Fairfield, Connecticut.) Kyle works by developing assemblages

through a series of small gestures. He will be showing a series of works in which the

presentation of an object is investigated as well as notions of creation. This is accomplished by

celebrating each material and its individual ambience through a series of slight manipulations. In

using simple elements of woodworking and snapshot photography, he attempts to reference his

conscious and unconscious relationship to high and low-end commercial appeal. 

Sean Pearson (b. 1989, Bremerton, Washington.) Sean’s practice is driven by responding to

objects in a way that brings about a new potential meaning. He will be showing mixed media

sculptures that are object based with an emphasis on manipulation. The current mediums that

Sean has been employing within his practice include the use of glass casting, woodworking and

other physical labor based processes. 

The outcome of the work is determined by the artist’s surroundings with the intention of

outlining important qualities from objects that suggest gestural sensations or mimic basic bodily

functions and form. The human body’s relationship to the space it occupies is something that

Sean finds inevitable to emerge when it comes to working with objects. 

“I see this exploration to be in analogous to the investigation of my own relationship to

ideas of love, autonomy, travel, and escape. These are all nonetheless important examples of

allegories that are suggested in the work.”