Nola Avienne
Vesna Pavlovic
Renée Rhodes
Adam Satushek

New Members Show – 2008

March 6 – 30, 2008

The New Members Show will feature work by four of SOIL's newest additions: Nola Avienne, Vesna Pavlovic, Renée Rhodes and Adam Satushek. This diverse group of artists will add fresh new perspectives to the SOIL collective. New works in photography, installation, video, sculpture and drawing will be exhibited. 

Recent events from personal history, transformation, and memory are the starting points of Nola Avienne's work. While investigating the tensions between different materials, how they evoke art and science, pain and humor, she addresses the issues of fragility and protection. Her works, made as traces of mechanical interventions are seductive objects, which both physically and perceptually, open up the space between order and chaos. For the New Members Show, Avienne will create drawings and sculpture to illustrate these concepts with the use of magnets.

Vesna Pavlovic's works develop as anthropological studies, analyzing culture and visual representations through particular phenomena, and through the behavior of certain social groups. The prevailing themes in Pavlovic's work are issues of taste, desire and expectation, and the friction of performance. For her participation at the New Members Show, Pavlovic will present her most recent series Show Homes, produced in 2006-07. The images of model houses, meticulously arranged for prospective buyers, and shot in various locations in the US, reveal the shifting boundaries between private and public space. Presented both as photographic prints, as well as projected images, within this installation, the images will work simultaneously as images of display, and the display of images. 

Through the language of dance Renée Rhodes continues thinking over her relationship to the places and spaces she comes to rest in. From locations with physical immediacy to spaces more obscure in nature, controlled structures of human movement aim to aid with the discovery of her human place. The works to be shown at SOIL will make use of absurdly controlled guidelines and structures which act as the frameworks for the video's surface. Beyond the surface dances lie choreographically demanding phone calls, physically controlling geographies and fleets of pelting ping pong balls. 

Adam Satushek's work investigates the knitting of humans with the world—how people's actions and creations influence surrounding environments and how these environments in turn affect people. As people build structures within the existing framework of the world they mimic and adopt existing aspects of it while augmenting and rejecting others. Adam's photographic work shown in the New Members Showexplores the mutually constitutive and fluctuating dimensions that exist between built structures and the surrounding world.