Exhibition

Rebus Works announces Internal Combustion by Lauren Adelman, a Brooklyn-based printmaker and arts educator.  Internal Combustion will open Friday, April 6 with a reception with the artist from 6-10 pm in conjunction with First Friday.  Adelman will be joined by Durham arts educator Lisa Charde on Saturday, April 7 at 4 pm for their lecture entitled Dialogue:  Art/Education/Activism.  

 

Internal Combustion is a series of intaglio and silkscreen prints, which Adelman explains as focusing on “the interconnectedness between the physical systems within our bodies and the systems of living that we create socially, institutionally and mechanically.”  Comparing and juxtaposing these systems, Adelman visually “explores the relationships between cars, transportation and the impact urban sprawl has on the environment and our bodies.”

In addition to being an accomplished printmaker, Adelman has been a teaching artist for the past decade in New York and Boston.  She has worked in a variety of institutions, including museums, schools and juvenile detention centers.  Currently, Adelman teaches court-involved youth at a transitional high school in New York, and serves as the arts and entrepreneurship coordinator in an after-school program for charter-school and court-mandated students. 

 

Adelman received a Master of Arts Education from New York University, and Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in conjunction with Tufts University.   She has taken master printmaking courses with Kiki Smith and Bob Blackburn, and taught printmaking at the Museum of Modern Art.    Adelman has shown extensively in New York, including in a exhibition at The Commons, curated by Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond.  

 

Speaking about their experiences as artists and educators, Adelman will be joined by Lisa Charde for their lecture, Dialogue: Art/Education/Activism on Saturday, April 7 at 4 pm, at Rebus Works. 

 

Adelman will discuss how activist art programming can provide incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth with a space to critically reflect on their lived experiences and their involvement with the prison system, while sharing their stories with a public audience.  She will discuss how such an approach can be an agent of empowerment for the participants through facilitating critical dialogue, and providing a space in which youth can create artwork with the intention of combating public stereotypes that surround adolescents and prison. 

 

Lisa Charde is a Raleigh resident currently working as an art educator at the Nasher Museum in Durham.  She is committed to using contemporary art as an entry point to engage political and social issues of our time.  Her artwork is inspired by US immigration policies, and the health of our democracy and has been exhibited in several group shows in New York City including Exit Art and the South Street Seaport Museum.  Charde will discuss her artwork, her contribution to the educational materials associated with season three of Art21the PBS television series, and how activist art education can be used in alternative settings such as the art museum.