March 18th - April 30th 2022
Gallery Hours: 24/7
miniMAC (miniature Mount Airy Contemporary)
25 West Mt Airy Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19119
www.mountairycontemporary.com
miniMAC is pleased to announce Elastic Fantastic, an exhibition of works by Amy Chan and Kristi Arnold. While Chan and Arnold use abstract language in uniquely expressive ways, they share similar design sensibilities with regard to color and a love for building contrast through conflicting compositional elements - hard and soft, flat and organic, solids and patterns.
Amy Chan produced one hundred 6” x 6” drawings during the pandemic. Selections from this series are included in this exhibition. Size constraints and the consistency of the small work format allowed Chan to work in an improvisational mode, and the resulting drawings are bold, flat and gestural, at once light-hearted and serious.
Kristi Arnold’s paintings from her Mergings and Minglings series blend hard geometric crystal-like forms, undulating fungi and other more fundamentally abstract components into atmospheric, surreal and often alien landscapes. Her color palette pushes the viewer to imagine a visual spectrum where these landscapes, with their mismatched parts, come together into a cohesive new whole.
Amy Chan’s work can be found in the collections of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, The Spencer Museum of Art and Capital One. She has received grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Amy Chan is represented by Page Bond Gallery and teaches at the University of Virginia. Learn more at www.amychan.org.
Kristi Arnold (www.kristi-arnold.com) received a BFA degree in painting from the University of Kansas and an MFA degree in painting and printmaking from the University of Connecticut. She earned a PhD degree in visual arts and theory from the University of Sydney, Sydney College of Art in Australia. Arnold is also a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Krakow, Poland at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad including California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois and countries such as Belgium, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Bulgaria, Austria, and most recently a solo show at the International Center for Graphics Arts in Poland. In 2013, she was invited to create a site-specific project for the Central Business District in Brisbane, Australia by the Vibrant Laneways Program. She has also been the Artist-in-Residence at the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory at Lake Kawaguchi in Japan, Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, Wyoming, Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium, ARTSPACE in Australia, the University of Georgia in Atlanta, the Lawrence Art Center in Kansas, and the Hashinger Hall Post-MFA Artist in Residence at the University of Kansas. Kristi Arnold is an Associate Professor of Art at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.
miniMAC is a project of MAC (Mount Airy Contemporary). MAC has been curating shows in northwest Philadelphia since 2009.
