THE DRIVE THRU ART BOX AT GREEN TRUCK PUB
"MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS" BY CAT COUNIHAN & FARAN RILEY PETERSON
APRIL 10TH - AUGUST 10TH 2022
Sulfur Studios is pleased to present Midnight in the Garden of Earthly Delights, a project by Catherine Counihan & Faran Riley Peterson in the Drive Thru Art Box at Green Truck Pub from April 10th - June 8th, 2022.
About the Artists: Catherine Counihan & Faran Riley Peterson
Cat and Faran were born and raised in Savannah, GA. The two met in high school and became fast friends as young adults. They bonded over their love of art, shared Irish heritage and trans generational Catholic guilt. They have collaborated on several projects over the years, including a noise band that toured in 2007. Both artists moved away from Savannah for quite a few years only to return in their mid-30s and rekindle their old friendship and collaborative spirit.
About the Project: Midnight in the Garden of Earthly Delights
Midnight in the Garden of Earthly Delights is an homage to Heironymous Bosch’s three paneled opus, The Garden of Earthly Delights, and the artists’ love and grievances for their hometown. For better or worse Savannah is rapidly changing. The city has managed to hang on to its authentic grit despite the best efforts of real estate developers and investors to scrub it clean. In this triptych, the artists honor the city’s past and present as well as its weird and wonderful characters while also nodding towards some of its more sordid elements. Like Bosch’s painting, this piece depicts a certain version of heaven on earth as well as a darkness just around the corner.
The Drive Thru Art Box was started in 2012 by Matt Hebermehl and Mike Williams as part of the SeeSAW (See Savannah Art Walls) Project, a public arts initiative. Jessica Leigh Lebos led the way with the first yarn bomb installation. ARTS Southeast is proud to continue this unique way of presenting public art to the local community.
Tide Pool II
MidSummer 2021 Exhibition at New Era Gallery, Vinalhaven, MainE
On view from July 17th to August 3rd, 2021
"Another Realm," is a group exhibition featuring Ruth Sykes, Faran Riley, and Sally Mayer Seidl. Through traditional 2-dimensional media, these artists render the intangible, reaching beyond physical reality in search of the ephemeral, spiritual, and temporal. With keen obsession, they sift through the fog and bring back traces of nature, of bodies, of the passage of time. These meditative searches manifest themselves in the physical layering of media - in some cases hyper-detailed, in others, gestural, distressed, and abstracted. Taken together, the body of work in this exhibition invites us to consider the fantastical within our midst.
"Another Realm" will be on display in the Gallery at Sulfur Studios from February 11th - February 21st, 2021.
Exhibition Dates: February 11th - 21st 2021