by The Editors
Art and literature collided in a deliciously harmonic event Saturday night at the PS Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. Riveter editors Kaylen Ralph and Joanna Demkiewicz worked with the PS Gallery to create the gallery’s summer exhibit of emerging artists, all women. A new department in Issue 2 of The Riveter, “Here are the Women (in Visual Artists)” also features the women, revealing their muses, inspirations, favorite art magazines and more.
“Here are the Women” by Evan Wood for Missouri Life
“The Riveter kicks off collaboration with PS: Gallery” by MacKenzie Reagan
Marie Gardeski
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Artist statement excerpt: “Some scenarios may seem innocent enough, but upon closer inspection unmistakable sadness becomes apparent. Through drawing, painting and installation marie explores relationships between humor and the uncanny. She creates familiar yet disturbing scenes, sometimes involving violence, usually evoking pathos. Characters appear and reappear.”
Edie Overturf
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Artist bio excerpt: “Edie is interested in the use of symbols in image construction, rhetorical situations, allegory in narrative, dualities in language, prosthetics and other replacements, fire as a destructive and regenerative force, and ribbon like speech bubbles. Her pieces have a highly-detailed, reflective, and exploratory aspect to them, and often feature images of herself wandering through fields, climbing trees, picnicking with rabbits and sporting a beard. Edie currently resides in Minneapolis Minnesota, draws at home and prints at LegUp Studio in Northeast Minneapolis.”
Beth Hoeckel
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Artist bio excerpt: “Beth Hoeckel is a multidisciplinary artist from Baltimore USA. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she focused primarily on painting, photography, and printmaking. A whirlwind decade was subsequently spent abroad including two years living in New York City followed by four years in Los Angeles. Beth is currently a full-time artist creating mixed media paintings and collages in Baltimore city.”
Claire Stigliani
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Artist statement excerpt: “I tell stories about women, inspired by paintings, photographs, magazines, posters, YouTube clips, literature, performance and plays. My paintings are like episodes in an unconventional romantic comedy with myself cast as the heroine, writer and director. The scenes depict my fantasies and secret desires. They explore the act of watching and being watched and blur fiction with reality.”
Sadie Barnette
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Artist bio: Sadie Barnette is from Oakland, California. She received her BFA from CalArts in 2006, and her Masters in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, in 2012. She has shown her work at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Self Help Graphics and Charlie James in Los Angeles, Ever Gold gallery in San Francisco, and Carol Jazzar in Miami. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
