Exhibition Dates: February 12–March 6, 2021
Day & Night Projects is proud to present Land of Vines, an exhibition of ceramics and painting by South Carolina-based artists Susan Klein and Mark Brosseau. A mutual admiration of Klein’s glazed ceramic stoneware and Brosseau’s paintings with acrylic, enamel, and flashe led these two artists to start a dialogue over abstraction as well as the interplay between painting and sculpture. Together they helped start a branch of Tiger Strikes Asteroid gallery in Greenville, SC., and have continued to investigate connections between their work, culminating in this exhibition.
The artists see their work as a response to the world that is tethered to place. Yet both approach their work through improvisation, reacting in the moment to form and color. The exhibition’s title Land of Vines refers to the novel Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino. Cosimo, the protagonist, creates a life in the trees. He must improvise to survive; creativity is his lifeline. Vines help him move through the trees, creating connections from point to point. Klein’s and Brosseau’s call and response between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional can be read similarly—pictorial vines that map out the space of their minds.
Land of Vines will be on view Feb. 12–March 6. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: No opening reception will be held. The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible.
The exhibition Land of Vines will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Susan Klein is an artist and curator living in Charleston, SC. She has shown her work nationally and internationally. Her most recent exhibition was “Elsewhere Is A Negative Mirror”, a two-person show at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, curated by Will Hutnick. Curatorial projects include the 2018 exhibition “Nighttime for Strangers” at NARS Foundation (Brooklyn) and upcoming exhibitions through Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville. Klein is a 2020-2021 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Other awards include a Hambidge Center Residency, Wassaic Project Residency (NY) and residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (Brooklyn), a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and an Ox-bow Artist-in-Residence Summer Fellowship. She teaches painting at the College of Charleston.
Equally drawn to color, science, math, and emotion, Mark Brosseau discovered art by way of chemistry and architecture. After graduating from high school in Lyndon, VT, where he was born in 1976, he entered Dartmouth College with the intention of pursuing studies in chemistry. His interest soon shifted to architecture, a curriculum that required a drawing class. That drawing class changed not only his college major but also his life, introducing him to the world of creative exploration that fuels his passion and intellectual curiosity today. Mark graduated with honors from Dartmouth in 1998 and then earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. He followed that with a year of painting and printmaking in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. He has had fourteen solo exhibitions, the most recent being “Far-fetched “at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, KS. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including New American Paintings, and reviewed by ArtForum, Philadelphia Inquirer, Two Coats of Paint, Artblog, and others. Mark currently lives with his wife and two dogs in Greer, SC. He is a Co-Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville. He is a 2019 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
