Subbasement Artist Studios (SBAS) is proud to present Mothership Connection, a two-person exhibition featuring the artwork of Lauren Boilini and Bobby English. These artists explore themes of creation and destruction – two intricately linked processes that conjure and return all living things to and from the great unknown.
Lauren Boilini grew up in Bloomington, Indiana and graduated from the Mount Royal School of Art in Baltimore in 2008. She has exhibited throughout the East Coast and Midwest, and recently returned from the Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming; the two massive paintings she completed there will be shown for the first time in Mothership Connection. Boilini’s paintings often feature dualing opposite forces in fights, orgies, and races that are violent, chaotic, yet sublimely beautiful in their precariousness.
Bobby English is a Baltimore native and recently graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He works across many disciplines, from ink painting to bookbinding to metal sculpture. His work, which investigates ideas of ancestry, origins, and spirituality is shaped not only by his own hand, but also by larger forces, such as gravity, chance, and nature itself.
Mothership Connection will feature a collaborative, site-specific piece between Boilini and English. Two performance pieces by Bobby English will be underway throughout the opening reception on Saturday, September 24, 2011.
Exhibition closing date: Saturday, October 29, 2011, 2011.
Gallery visiting hours: M-F by appointment, 12-5 pm Saturdays.
