Jaime Raybin and Ryan Hogan are material-driven installation artists working with ambiguous specimen-like forms.  Their exhibition “Suspension” fuses art and biology, and features exclusively self-illuminating work.  The show runs November 4 through December 11, with an opening reception November 4 from 6 to 9pm, and an artist’s talk at 7pm.

Hogan’s viscous sculptural forms resemble organic, unidentifiable substances contained in glass displays.  The glowing forms are simultaneously familiar and foreign. Hogan’s work is conceptually poised in the liminal point between the binaries of control and freedom, order and chaos, and transparency and opacity. As the contemporary philosopher, Mark Taylor, asserts, it is at this threshold where complexity resides. Through the creation of non-representational systems, Hogan desires to produce a visceral experience.

Raybin’s work is a private look at the connection between mind and body. Using the microscope as a tool for abstraction, her PSA-style lightbox displays juxtapose ambiguous anatomical imagery against captions connected to internal dialog.  The piece “Clot” shows a hairy jelly-like mass alongside a caption reading “There is a specific form of perfectionism where you can’t make decisions, can’t commit to anything, for fear of being wrong.” The language of the text falls somewhere between diary and textbook: a researcher inadvertently revealing too much about herself.  The displays are simultaneously confrontational and abstract, the viewer accidentally overhearing both sides of a passing conversation between body and mind.

About the Artists:

Ryan Hogan is a former artist-in-residence at Gallery F at the Scarritt-Bennett center (Nashville, TN). He is a graduate of Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, TN.  His work has been featured at Seed Space (Nashville, TN), the Renaissance Center (Dickson, TN), Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green, KY), and Gallery F. He was named “Best Artist to Watch” in the 2011 Best in Nashville issue of the Nashville Scene.

www.ryanphogan.com

Jaime Raybin’s exhibition credits include the Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, TN), Swanson-Reed Contemporary (Louisville, KY), Foundry Art Centre (St. Charles, MO), the Renaissance Center (Dickson, TN), Twist Gallery (Nashville, TN), and the University of the South (Sewanee, TN). She earned a BFA from Watkins College of Art and Design in 2006. She is the former president of Plate Tone Printshop, a cooperative printmaking studio in Nashville, TN.

www.jaimeraybin.com

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