Solomon Projects is pleased to announce our fall
exhibition, All Things Considered (2007-2008), a thought-provoking
and politically engaged project by young Georgia-based conceptual
artist, Kathryn Refi. This exhibition will present Refi's most
recent body of work: twelve, large-scale works on paper that
map coverage of global news over the course of the year 2007.
All Things Considered will be on view September 5 - October
11, 2008. An opening reception with the artist will be held
on Friday, September 5th from 6-8 PM, and an artist talk will
take place on Saturday, September 6th at 2 pm.
The twelve large drawings that comprise this exhibition developed
over the course of 2007 as Refi listened daily to the first
hour of National Public Radio's (NPR) news program of the same
name. The artist carefully noted all geographical locations
mentioned in each segment. The data was then transferred to
paper through the application of small adhesive red dots, with
each dot denoting a site referenced in the broadcast. Refi does
not draw geographical boundaries of countries or continents;
instead twelve world maps emerge as the red dots chart the places
mentioned. The subtle drawings quietly compel the viewer to
identify the distribution of dots representing the locations
covered during the program - and by extension - where and how
world news is considered.
Born in Atlanta in 1975, Refi received her BFA from the Maryland
Institute, College of Art, in Baltimore, and her MFA from the
University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, where she currently
lives and works. Her work has been exhibited in museums around
the southeast, namely the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC; the
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; Florida Atlantic University
Art Galleries, Boca Raton, FL; The Atlanta Contemporary Art
Center, Atlanta, GA; MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA, and nationally reviewed
in Art in America and Art Papers. This is the
artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery following Color
Recordings in 2006.