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EXHIBITIONS
BRADBURY ART MUSEUM
MARKS IN MOTION
March 13 - June 11, 2025
In recent years, drawings have moved from being largely a private medium for sketching to being prominent in contemporary art exhibitions. Many artists who concentrate on making abstract drawings use their lines expressively, to create an emotional connection with viewers. As artist Carlene Muñoz says, “When you’re drawing, it captures your presence… You’re there with your own touch – it records your mark.” “Marks in Motion” gathers work by seven artists who draw in this way: Yasi Alipour, Carlene Muñoz, Casey Neumann, Sky Pape, Jaanika Peerna, Susan Schwalb, and Daniel Zeller. The exhibition features videos of Jaanika Peerna and Susan Schwalb at work.
YASI ALIPOUR
“Folding begins with my hands. Through its geometric labor, this process invites all the subsequent examinations that follow the persistence of the body: exhaustion, pleasure, stories, histories, and all the socio-political urgencies that follow. Folding is an ode to the traditions and histories of paper-making. Accessible, every day, present, I am interested in how works on paper such as folding blur the lines between different histories of art: it is drawing without the surface, it is a sculpture where strong forms become a material as light as a breath. It is a snapshot of the hours spent in the repeated act folding, it is a trace of the labor, the performance, the histories held within the paper, the centuries of embodied geometric thought. As an everyday practice, folding is a form of note-taking without language, a map of invisible spaces of inspiration, a trace of care, of intimacy.”
BIO
Yasi Alipour is an Iranian artist/writer based in New York. Her tactile works on paper use folding to explore mathematics as a language, with all the historical, social, political, mortal, and embodied ramifications any language holds. Alipour currently lives in Brooklyn and wonders about paper, politics, and performance, probing personal history to parse issues around political instability and interrupted histories.
CARLENE MUÑOZ
“My current body of work represents an existential exploration of presence, spatial relationships, and the origins of life. The ritual of drawing allows my unconscious thoughts to shape the imagery; through this meditative process, altered patterns and visionary compositions are formed. The drawings result from an intuitive impulse to find higher meaning through abstraction.”
BIO
Carlene Muñoz is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. She received a BFA in Drawing from New World School of the Arts in 2006, and was awarded a graduate teaching assistantship in 2011 from the University of Florida, where she received a MFA in Drawing in 2014. Currently she is an Adjunct Drawing Professor at New World School of the Arts and Nova Southeastern University. Her drawings and paintings have been exhibited both nationally and internationally in galleries and museums including The Fredric Snitzer Gallery, MA Arte Contemporaneo, and The Boca Raton Museum of Art.
https://www.carlenemunoz.com/
CASEY NEUMANN
“I am taken with the preservation of the human spirit in the handmade. Every cut, stitch, or woven element acts as a marker of time and a documentation of the manner in which one's life was spent. The presence of the maker can be felt through viewing or touching the resulting piece or object.”
BIO
The organic nature of these woven forms is meant to evoke a sense of a pulse or breath. They represent growth and development that cannot be tethered by a loom. They are unpredictable and appear to fall apart at times, but these pieces manage to hold on and remain whole in the end.”
https://caseyneumann.com/
SKY PAPE
This exhibition, ‘Marks in Motion’ presents selections from the artist’s “Anomalies” series. Using geometry and patterns, Pape references systems that operate within us, and those within which we exist, addressing themes of perception and uncertainty. Pulsating with irregularities, the human hand is always evident in these structured, intricate compositions. Such quirks reveal tolerance thresholds for difference or corruption, balancing acts between stability and collapse, and the dance between continuity and uncertainty that pervades our interwoven existence. Remarking on how this visual language of curiosity sparks a recognition of connections where she had barely sensed they existed, Pape says, “I’m fascinated by the leaps the mind makes when confronted by something that’s a little off, creating a space for unexpected realizations to arise.”
BIO
Sky Pape has exhibited widely in gallery and museum shows for over thirty-five years. Recognized for her abstractions on and of paper, Pape’s artwork is in museum, corporate, and private collections.
JAANIKA PEERNA
Jaanika Peerna works across drawing, performance and installation. Central to the artist’s practice is an expanded conception of drawing that engages the rhythms and movements of the body in broad gestural mark-making. Working with the semi-translucent material of Mylar, Peerna's drawn lines are often altered and erased by the application of water and ice: manipulated, like her drawing materials, with two hands in whole-body movements. Her wall installations add new layers to this process, the drawings sliced, twisted, and spun out in sensual arrangements that cascade across the gallery wall. The artist’s work often draws on a deeply-felt engagement with the climate crisis—explored directly in her series of Glacier Elegy performances. Layered and complex, Peerna’s practice channels personal energies and motivations into powerful works in which line, form, and shadow flux and flow together as one cathartic whole.
BIO
Janika Peerna was born in Tallinn, Estonia, and received an MFA from SUNY New Paltz, NY. Her drawings, installations and performances have been presented at galleries internationally including the Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AK; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Haus Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia; Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, NY; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; and Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY.
https://www.jaanikapeerna.net/