TRIIIBE

Revisited

We are pleased to present, TRIIIBE: revisited, a companion exhibit to the retrospective currently at the Fitchburg Art Museum, TRIIIBE: same difference (through June 5, 2016).

In 2006, Massachusetts College of Art graduates and performance artists, Alicia, Kelly and Sara Casilio (identical triplets) and National Geographic photographer Cary Wolinsky, formed the collective TRIIIBE. TRIIIBE creates political and social commentary/art using performance, video and photography. They explore ideas through collaboration involving people of diverse background, vision and experience. This collective voice allows them to reach a broader audience and the community they create, TRIIIBE continues to expand.

TRIIIBE: revisited features smaller versions of the 10’ tall triptychs at FAM. In addition to the triptychs, two new TRIIIBE pieces will be shown: Fine Wallpaper and Unnamed. Fine, one of TRIIIBE’s signature images has evolved. Presented in book form Fine Wallpaper captures the transition and changes as the original image has evolved to be 8 new versions. Unnamed, TRIIIBE’S new photograph is a tapestry woven by Kelly. This is a departure from previous imagery … no longer visible and identifiable as identical triplets, we see only parts of a face a nose, an eye, fingers poking through the weaving…humanity is woven together.

Mags Harries

Precautionary Tales

Mags Harries’ exhibit, Precauionary Tales, explores dimension, presence in space, scale, modification of reality… She shares and reveals surprising and beautiful visual constructs of the evolution of a 2D object to 3D and then back. She images the sculpture as it rotates 360 degrees.

– this information is processed so that a 3D printer can reproduce a monumental sculpture at smaller, absolutely realistic sizes.

As a sculptor I have become fascinated with the idea that instead of modeling and casting objects, I can collage objects together through the process of 3D scanning. I can re-imagine the objects through their relationships, changing their proportions, scale, color and merging the forms. I can be more playful at the same time be in control of the content, as in a conversation.

The process is 3D to 2D and back to 3D and in the case of the flying boots back into 2D again. In the process of creating the 3D object it can be viewed from any angle, defying gravity.

The hay bales were taken at the Baer residency in Iceland. I was there over the summer Solstice, the sun never dropped below the horizon and I found it hard to sleep. These massive stacked hay bales were piled up in the field and the white plastic wrap reflected the light of day within the 24 hour period. As I could not sleep I photographed them through the 24hours, each time marveling at how they changed from body to landscape. -Mags Harries