June 14 - July 13, 2024
​Located in the Newly Unfamiliar | Laura Carpenter Truitt and Amy Reckley

Located in the Newly Unfamiliar -  Exhibition statement
This exhibition, in various media, reflects our independent returns to the midwest where we grew up. Making work about where you are is an investigation, and my own return from the western United States to Ohio is a new reflection on the landscape where I spent my first 20 years. Amy also experienced a return, in her case to MI. For both of us an adjustment to the weather, the seasons, the concerns, the habits, and the economies of these areas that we thought we knew was the impetus for this body of work. These works describe movements through spaces from different perspectives and media as a way to process our return to place. 

Laura Carpenter Truitt Statement 
Much of my work has to do with perspective. Linear perspective, surely, but also our emotional and collective perspective of landscape and personal space. The underlying conflict in my work is generated by climate change, land abuse and over consumption of all kinds, my own included. The borders and edges of images and objects illuminate barriers as well as showing us current paths of entry.

Laura Carpenter Truitt Bio
Laura Carpenter Truitt is a visiting assistant professor of painting and drawing at Oberlin College. In addition to completing her MFA in painting at Colorado State University, Laura studied painting and drawing at Goucher College, the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Vermont Studio Center and the Chicago Art Institute. Truitt is represented by the William Havu Gallery in Denver and has shown her work all over the country including the Jundt Art Museum in Spokane, the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, The Painting Center in New York, the Arvada Center in Colorado, Coker College in South Carolina, Wabash College in Indiana and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. She has been a featured artist in Ruminate Magazine, and her work was published in Manifest Gallery’s INPA 7 Painting Annual. You can see more of her current and past work at www.lauracarpentertruitt.com This exhibit has been funded in part by Oberlin College.

Amy Reckley Statement
I often consider how my studio practice can be an engagement in the contemporary art discourse that combines two- and three-dimensional practices as an expanded definition of drawing. Drawing becomes object and action, decision and process, noun and verb.
Borrowing fragments from the natural and constructed world, my work is never completely representational nor abstract. It boils down to observations of the physical world around me, psychological space and scale and the accumulation of form and material. For me, drawing is the most immediate visual method where I can invent, expand upon and articulate simultaneous realities. 

Amy Reckley Bio
Amy Reckley put in her time teaching adjunct at several colleges and universities in Colorado and Michigan, and now works as the Exhibitions Preparator at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has an MFA in Drawing from Colorado State University, a Post- Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Serigraphy from SACI College of Art & Design in Italy, and a BA from Kalamazoo College. 
 
Reckley has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. Significant exhibitions include FOMA in Santa Fe, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, and Saugatuck Center for the Arts in Michigan; recently installed and site-related works include Michigan Legacy Art Park in Thompsonville, Michigan, the Big Santa Anita Canyon, California and at The Symphony in the Foothills Gallery in Kansas. Her residency awards include the Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University, ART342, and Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency. 

Reckley is represented by Gallery 360 in Minneapolis and is currently working on a fully funded public project for Downtown Grand Rapids, slated to be installed at the beginning of August 2024.
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www.amyreckley.com
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Inventory

Laura Carpenter Truitt

Paradoxical Lucidity or close to the woods
Oil on canvas
NFS

Dusk
Oil on Arches Huile paper

Twilight
Oil on Arches Huile paper

Dawn
Oil on Arches Huile paper

Sunset Cups 
Porcelain
SOLD

Interrupt
Oil on Canvas

Time and place
Oil, graphite, color pencil, and charcoal on Arches Huile paper
NFS 

Time and Place cups
Wild Clay dug from Yellow Spring, and Oberlin, Ohio
NFS

Drive
Mixed media animation 2024
NFS

I-71 S. Mile Marker 145 6:30 pm
Oil, graphite, color pencil, and charcoal on Arches Huile paper

I-70 E. Mile Marker 72 3 pm
Oil, graphite, color pencil, and charcoal on Arches Huile paper

Amy Reckley

Protecting What Has Already Faded
Mixed media installation
6.2024
NFS

Trip Fantastic, 2024
acrylic on panel
11.5 x 13.5 inches

Trip Fantastic 2, 2024
acrylic on panel
11.5 x 13.5 inches

3rd Utopia, 2023
acrylic on panel
11.5 x 10.5 inches

Dangerous Phrases, 2024
acrylic on panel
11.5 x 13.5 inches

Fog, 2024
acrylic on panel
10.25 x 11.5 inches

Heterotopia 1, 2023
acrylic and oil pastel on panel
11.5 x 18.5 inches

Heterotopia 2, 2023
acrylic and oil pastel on panel
11.5 x 18.5 inches