Join us for an end-of-semester, happy-hour gathering, and help support the arts and JCC's newest full-time art instructor, Madison LaVallee.
Beginning April 18 and running through May 26, the Center Gallery will host an exhibition-opening reception and artist talk for "Soft Power: Yearning to Stretch", sculptural works by Madison LaVallee. LaVallee’s work explores the materiality of real and imagined spaces. Soft Power highlights recognizable objects and materials that are often concealed, discarded, or overlooked. Fragments of domestic objects are cared for and reinvented through tactile exploration. Family heirlooms are included to explore how lived histories interact with new growth, vulnerability, and change. Through labor and manipulation of material, LaVallee explores her role as a woman sculptor working with soft forms, domestic objects, and family heirlooms.
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Madison LaVallee (Maddi) is an artist, curator, and educator, who recently moved to Jamestown, New York where she is currently teaching full-time at Jamestown Community College. She received her MFA from the University at Albany and was awarded the Distinguished Thesis Award, a BFA in Drawing and Painting and a BS in Art Education from State University of New York at New Paltz. Her work has been exhibited nationally with recent solo exhibits at Joyce Goldstein Gallery (Chatham, NY) and Community Arts Network of Oneonta (Oneonta, NY), along with several group exhibitions including, The Albany Airport (Albany, NY) The Teaching Gallery at Hudson Valley Community College (Troy, NY), LABspace (Hillsdale, NY), Ferrovia Studios (Kingston, NY), Wired Gallery (High Falls, NY), The Re-Institute (Millerton, NY), Opalka Gallery (Albany, NY) and Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (Woodstock, NY).
