{"id":2528,"date":"2022-08-22T22:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dartmagazine.com\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:42:37","slug":"meinda-stickney-gibson-and-gary-gisslers-onirica-at-castello-spaces-in-venice-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dartmagazine.com\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"Melinda Stickney-Gibson and Gary Gissler’s “Onirica” at Castello Spaces in Venice, Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Jen Williams Dragon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CONVERSATIONS series #4 \u00a9 Melinda Stickney-Gibson 2022, beeswax, oil on paper, 6×4 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Onirica, <\/em>an Italian adjective that translates as \u201cdream-like\u201d in English, is the uniting concept of the work of two New York-based artists: Melinda Stickney-Gibson and Gary Gissler. The delicate drawings of Stickney-Gibson are sensitive meditations on the texture of memory as fine lines and forms flicker through layered shadows of consciousness. A tall installation Place for Being<\/em>, made of layers of thin paper flow down from the ceiling and across the gallery floor in a glowing waterfall of honey-colored vellum. Nostalgic photos are hidden among the folds as well as brief diaristic phrases and hand drawn shapes. As a visual poet, Ms. Stickney-Gibson incorporates written words as suggestive notations, while her brittle paper layers and delicate forms echo the trembling edges of nature.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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f*** that \u00a9 Gary Gissler graphite on board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gary Gissler installation at Castello Spaces Gallery | photo credit: Katia Bakunina 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Visitors examining Gary Gissler’s artwork with a magnifying glass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gary Gissler\u2019s obsessively microscopic drawings on prepared panels invite close examination with a magnifying glass helpfully provided by the gallery. Profane phrases such as f**k this<\/em> or f**k that<\/em> repeat in a meditative repetitive cycle that creates undulating patterns from seemingly asemic writing. This preoccupation with words as symbols representing meaning as well as the actual words created by the literal marks and forms themselves balances representation with abstraction and meaning with aimlessness. Gissler is a master of the power of scale as he compels the viewer to experience themselves reduced in size in order to study the words, and repeat them one-by-one to themselves as they experience the minute and infinitely divisible as mantra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in dreams, both artists convey the poetry of symbol and substance at once rational and random, nevertheless relaying a tale of archetypal mythic power for which these artists serve as oracles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melinda Stickney-Gibson Installation View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Onirica<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>a two-person exhibition of paintings and drawings by Melinda Stickney-Gibson<\/strong> and small works by Gary Gissler<\/strong>, runs through 28 August, 2022 at Castello Spaces located at Fondamenta San Giuseppe, Castello 780, Venice, Italy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jen Williams Dragon Onirica, an Italian adjective that translates as \u201cdream-like\u201d in English, is the uniting concept of the work of two New York-based artists: Melinda Stickney-Gibson and Gary Gissler. The delicate drawings of Stickney-Gibson are sensitive meditations on the texture of memory as fine lines and forms flicker through layered shadows of consciousness. … <\/p>\n

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