Machinato Causa

The Machinato Causa exhibition is the result of an artist-in-residency project organized by Breadboard, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) and NextFab Studio. Three CFEVA affiliated artists were selected for a six-week residency at NextFab Studio. The exhibit will be on view from November 19, 2010 through January 2, 2011.

Machinato Causa

Marisha Simons

Artist printmaker Marisha Simons has spent most of her life in places of breathtaking natural beauty, Northern California and Colorado. Her artwork borrows images of both flora and fauna from these landscapes and translates them into abstracted forms of themselves that build a theatrical scale slice of the outdoors. The presentation of her prints is non-traditional: her installations are hand-printed on silk and hang in space in layers, utilizing the transparency of the silk to create a sense of depth.Simons earned her MFA in Book Arts & Printmaking from the University of the Arts in 2003, and her BA in studio Art from Colorado College in 1995.

Currently, in her business Marisha Simons Designs, she designs and prints custom interior installations for clients as well as collaborates with individual artists to produce fine art editions of their work. She teaches printmaking at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA and is a graduated fellow in the Career Development Program at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia.

Peter Hanley

Peter Hanley works in media co-opted from industrial/corporate/institutional settings—often letterpress, photography, and/or software & electronics.  He favors oblique references, artifacts that support multiple avenues of decoding, privileging tactics over strategies, détournement to design.
Recent works have included Bloom (a collaboration with Marisha Simons), a shadow puppet interpretation of Treasure by Katie Baldwin (a collaboration with Katie Baldwin), and various letterpress works, an example of which is included in the exhibition Pulling from History: Letterpress currently at the Print Center in Philadelphia.

Laureen Griffin

Through print-art and digital photography, Laureen Griffin looks at how culture is preserved through symbolic gesture. How a sense of security is established as we recognize symbolic language and social coding that uphold our values. And how we are conditioned to associate material display in our homes and on our person with a sense of belonging. Specifically, Griffin uses symbolic devices of adornment to challenge aesthetics of femaleness through commentary on personal and historical devices of ornament used in portraiture and decorative arts.

Laureen?s most recent accolades include, a two year Center For Emerging Visual Artists Career Development Fellowship, Women?s Studio Workshop Fellowship, Leeway Foundation Transformation Award, and artist in residency at 40th St. AIRSPACE. She is most well known for her Gender Portraiture Project and community based projects in schools, transitional housing and more recently a senior center. She has also begun to build a flourishing business working collaboratively to reform people?s homes and gardens and hopes to use her new found skills from NextFab Studio to enhance this work.  Laureen received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA from Syracuse University.

Breadboard Residency Program page here.


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