This March, we are excited to present exhibitions of prints and sculptures by Rachel Livedalen (Fort Worth, TX) and an interactive installation by Chalet Comellas (Tallahassee, FL) in the main galleries, as well as prints by Ashley Adiano Gattis (Atlanta, GA) in the Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery!

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Rachel Livedalen:

Rachel Livedalen grew up in Texas, North Carolina, and Virginia. She earned her BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Virginia. Upon completion of her degree, Rachel was awarded the Aunspaugh Fellowship from the University of Virginia to continue her creative research on campus. In 2014 Rachel graduated with an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa. Rachel Livedalen is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She has held this position since 2014 and heads the printmaking area. Her creative research explores contemporary femininity as seen through the lens of past histories and mythologies. Rachel exhibits her interdisciplinary work widely with recent solo exhibitions in Dallas, Kansas City, and Tallahassee.

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Chalet Comellas:

Chalet Comellas is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University. She earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Florida State University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Tampa. She has performed and exhibited her work nationally, select exhibitions include: Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA (2016), InLight Richmond, Richmond, VA (2014), Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York (2013), and Fountain Art Fair, Miami, FL (2012). Chalet has participated in several public art projects in Florida, including an outdoor video installation commissioned by the Tampa Museum of Art during Art Basel Miami (2006).

Comellas has collaborated with several artist collectives over the past five years, creating works that can be described as immersive socially engaged environments. She has also coordinated and volunteered with large-scale community outreach projects providing aesthetic and community building improvements.

In 2014, Comellas developed a series of interactive pop-up events called Assembly Is Required. These participatory art exhibitions, also called AIR events, connect artists with the community through the process of shared art-making. AIR events invite the participants into artist studios, galleries, and community settings relying on artist and guest interactions to assemble a temporary installation that evolves over time at each site.

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Ashley Adiano Gattis:

Ashley Gattis is an artist based in Atlanta Georgia. She received her bachelor of fine arts from Georgia State University in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking. Gattis's current body of work combines imagined moments with ideas of survival and strangeness. They focus on the idea of being in love and the feeling of being endangered. The compositions are full of clumsy and captivating characters; some quite beautiful, others less so; who seem to offer up a sense of primal madness and discrete indiscretion.