Opening Reception: First Friday, March 5th from 5pm to 8pm.
Chelsea Tinklenberg’s artist talk will be recorded and accessible online through the RVAS website and social media pages.
Exhibit run: March 5th - April 22nd, 2021, Craddock-Terry Gallery at Riverviews Artspace.
Spinning brooms, twirling mops, and bright purple cabbages are common objects found in my artwork. Stripped from their usual domestic setting and often paired with heavy industrial components, they defy their expected place and function. A wobbly balance between work and play engages the viewers imagination with humor and absurdity. My intent for my artworks is to utilize objects of function to access and explore fundamental human characteristics: vulnerability, awkwardness, and humor.
My process for creating art often begins rummaging through a junkyard. My grandfather owned a salvage business in the central valley of California, so growing up I had a unique experience of discovering objects and questioning their function. A myriad of unlikely objects, each with their own history and purpose, poetically coexist in a junkyard. In selecting objects I hope to bring a similar experience to the viewer in the gallery: one of delightful curiosity and discovery.
Swept Away, includes work created before the pandemic as well as during. As viewers see these objects through the lens of “pandemic cleanliness,” they will each bring their own experiences of 2020 into the interpretation of the work.
BIO:
Chelsea Tinklenberg a Professor of Art at the University of Lynchburg. She received her Master of Fine Art degree at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and Bachelor of Fine Art degree at Northern Arizona University. In summer 2017, she was a part of the digital stone project, a residency in Italy. In summer 2018, she completed a 2 month internship at Franconia Sculpture Park, and in spring 2019, she was invited to exhibit her work as a solo show in Philadelphia’s Napoleon Gallery. She is currently experimenting with both kinetic and static sculptural forms to capture playful, comedic, movement that eludes to our ever-changing struggle to achieve balance.
www.chelseatinklenberg.com
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