Pulp is pleased to announce a two person exhibition with work by Roger Brouard and Tibi Chelcea.
Roger Brouard’s work is a synthesis, grounded in memory from building wooden lobster boats and houses on the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia. From the daily routine of working with wood, from steam bending oak for frames, to cedar for planking on boats and framing to finish on houses. Working in rural coastal communities, boarded on the North Atlantic, through the seasons with their unique ‘coastal culture’ laid the groundwork for his sculpture and works on paper.
In 2002 Brouard launched a tool bag company. On the long flights from NY to China, he started his ink and wite-out drawings, to record ideas for sculptures.
Brouard, (born 1946) has exhibited his work at the drawing center in NY, Brick Lane Gallery in London, University of Maine and other New England galleries. While living in NYC for 3 summers, Brouard helped the artist H. C. Westermann with the building of his house and studio in Brookfield, CT.
Tibi Chelcea takes elements and processes of traditional art disciplines, such as printmaking and drawing, and combines them with parts and operations of digital technologies. His work demonstrates unexpected correlations between old and new technologies, and issues of consumption, serial design, automated vs labor-intensive processes, are brought to the fore.
In this exhibition Pulp will present three series by Chelcea. “Circuit Floorplan”, inspired by common symbols from electronic design explores the graphic potential of electronic symbols, “Faulty Electrodes” repurposes faulty/misprinted electronics teaching materials as the basis for paintings, and “Finishing Traces” incorporates ink blots onto tracings on electronic designs.
His work has been exhibited throughout the United States (New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Iowa, and other states) as well as Mexico, Egypt and Brazil, and has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and an Iowa Artist Fellowship. He was born in Romania and came to the United States to pursue a PhD in Computer Science. He has received several awards, fellowships, and patents in the field of electronic and digital design, which continues to be a major source of inspiration for his art.
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