Pink Noise Projects is excited to announce SIDE QUEST, featuring new works by artists Leslie Friedman & Tamsen Wojtanowski.
On view April 5, 2024 – April 26, 2024
Opening Reception: First Friday, April 5th, 6 pm – 10:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 2 pm – 6 pm – OR – By Appointment
Side Quest is a reference to the enduring practice an artist undertakes while simultaneously tending to the endless possibilities and never-ending responsibilities of modern life. The artist’s sensibility is pervasive, showing up in all facets of the day-to-day, yet it is the time spent fully embodying the creative spirit that persuades the individual maker to endure.Side Quest is a little adventure that you go on while on a bigger adventure. It’s the human desire and natural compulsion to push ourselves and seek continued expansion.
In this exhibition, artists Leslie Friedman and Tamsen Wojtanowski explore self-care, or self-nuturing, through ideas of friendship, nature, escape and play. Working with print as their point of origin, each artist explores the many variations of the process of print and the ways in which it might collaborate with other mediums or presentations, such as drawing, painting, fiber art, and installation. The works created contain delicate moments therein, but are resoundingly substantial in their use of material, commanding in their use of space, muscular in their application of color.
Leslie Friedman is an artist and educator who specializes in printmaking, sculpture, and installation. She has a BA in political theory from Brown University and an MFA in printmaking from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. In 2014, Friedman completed a fellowship at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists and won the Fleisher Wind Challenge. She has participated in residency at Shiro Oni in Japan and the Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with some highlights including solo shows at Space 1026 in Philadelphia, Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and the Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington.
Website: https://lesliepvd.com/
Instagram: @leslipvd
Tamsen Wojtanowski is a Philadelphia-based artist and educator who utlizes the medium of paper to contemplate and commemorate history. She pays tribute to her past and present identities through the use of cyanotype emulsion, paper cut, drawing and painting. Wojtanowski received her BS from Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art + Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, notably at Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Fotofilmic, Vancouver, BC, and more. Wojtanowski was a Fellowship Award Winner at the Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, Fellowship18. She was a semifinalist for The Print Center International Competition, Philadelphia, PA; Emerging Artist Scholarship finalist, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Fotofilmic Spring Shortlist, Vancouver, BC; Wind Challenge Award Winner, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, and more. Her work is in the following collections Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY; Fotofilmic; Vancouver, BC, and more. A selection of small print works are featured and available at The Print Center Gallery Store, Philadelphia, PA.
Website: http://www.tamsenwj.com/
Instagram: @tamsenwj
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