Welcome to the latest edition of The Concretely Newsletter 🔲. When I started this project 6 months ago, I thought there would be about 200 artists in the world who are working in concrete. Good news: found them all! There’s definitely no more!
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Selected events & exhibitions
Freedom to Roam
A solo exhibition by Andrea Bacigalupo 🔲 (USA) in Chico, California in the Chico Art Center.
“With sculptural objects formed in concrete, I make spatial fields by placing basic concrete forms; rods, planks, slabs, wedges, ramps, and arcs in an environment. The space is an invitation to viewers to enter the field - an architectural invitation - and to move or roam freely around the objects. I believe the freedom to roam and move has the power to create an inner harmony and our own inner music.”
“Andrea Bacigalupo was born and raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley. She has a large extended family in both the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City -- the birth places of her parents. She has always enjoyed making tactile objects. She has a vivid memory of making a small two tiered planter box out of wood when she was about 14 and also remembers what her kindergarten teacher said about her on her report card and believes it's still true today: ‘Andrea draws very lovely pictures when she takes her time.’”
COLD HEAT
A solo exhibition by Tamara Sekulić 🔲 (Croatia) in Zagreb, Croatia in the Galerija Idealni Grad. Open until 6/24.
New Art & Artists
We’ve just passed 200 artists on The Concretely - check them all out on the website. New names include:
Crystal Gregory
Profile: Crystal Gregory 🔲 (USA)
“My work uses cloth construction as a fundamental center, a place to start from and move back to. With a background in weaving, I see myself as a builder. I find a wonderful tension between building materials like concrete, metal, drywall or glass and the structural patterns of cloth.”
Ramazan Can
Profile: Ramazan Can 🔲 (Turkey)
“The works that I created by combining the textiles that the Yörüks, who have passed from the nomadic culture to the urban culture, put up in their cupboards to never be used again, with concrete, which is the most important industrial material of the settled life, present to the audience how a culture disappears in this distorted intercultural relationship.”
Nan Martin
Profile: Nan Martin 🔲 (USA)
“Nan Martin is a contemporary sculptor who lives in Texas. Born in Colorado, she grew up in the 1950s Hollywood and 1960s San Francisco in a French-speaking household. She is known for her gestural, figurative wire forms, which refer to life’s fragility and complexity.”
Natalia Drachinskaya
Profile: Natalia Drachinskaya 🔲 (Dubai)
“I look into the process of reciprocity with environment using situationists practices and principles of object-oriented ontology.”
Olivia Ines Bonilla
Profile: Olivia Ines Bonilla 🔲 (USA)
Sincerely,
The Concretely Editorial Board