3 Point Perspective: Cheryl Schlenker, Carol Lee Hannon & Amelia Cain

Full show dates: May 3 - June 23
Opening Reception: May 3 2024, 5 pm - 7 pm

3 Point perspective is a joint show by artists Carol Lee Hannon, Cheryl Schlenker, and Amelia Cain

Carol Lee Hannon

BIO
Carol Lee Hannon is a mixed media artist whose work focuses on the tactile nuances of mixed media, linework and color play. After studying visual arts and art history at Columbia University, Hannon forged a career in New York’s garment district, working alongside her family to create hand-painted textiles on silk for top fashion houses such as Vera Wang, Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, St. John and Halston. In 2019, Hannon replanted her roots in Media, PA where she continues to create art, enjoy insanely good food, and rejoice in binge-watching Netflix.

STATEMENT ON THE SHOW
This series explores the imperfections of the human touch through colorful cutouts and playful compositions. Each piece takes on the whimsy and virility of an acrobatic dance; an ode to both movement and rigidity. Curved silhouettes are juxtaposed with solid edges and corners while the incorporation of negative space and punch-outs add levity to heavier forms and placement permanence.

Cheryl Schlenker

BIO
Cheryl Schlenker, a resident of Media, is an award winning painter whose works have been displayed in local and international juried exhibitions.

ARTISTIC STATEMENT
Schlenker mixes various media to enhance the individual properties of each one and finds joy in compositions that suggest realities through abstracted shapes.

Amelia Cain

BIO + PROCESS
Amelia Cain studied photography and art education at Tyler School of Art. Cain’s latest works explore the cyanotype process. Combining digital photography with a 19th century printing process, cyanotypes bridge the past and present.

Cain applies photo-sensitive emulsion to sheets of watercolor paper using a hake brush before printing. The artist’s hand and intent in the gestural strokes are visible and important. The process reveals many layers of complexity, and is particularly suited to experimentation. The resulting images are unique and imperfect, painterly and lush. Foraged natural elements make an appearance in Cain’s works as ghostly photograms, a nod to Anna Atkin’s historical use of the process to document botanical findings.

3 POINT PERSPECTIVE STATEMENT
Human intervention increasingly plays a larger role in transforming the landscape we inhabit. 3 Point Perspective is a series of original cyanotype prints, part of my ongoing investigation into the ways humans interact and intersect with the patterns and rhythms of the natural world. This body of photographs, including camera-based images and photograms, explores the claiming and forfeiture of space and place within landscapes, both real and imagined. Using cyanotype, my images are exposed to sunlight, rinsed with water and dried in the wind. They embrace nature’s unpredictability, and allow both choice and chance to factor into the outcome of each piece.