Gallery Talk and Reception
Friday, September 6, 6:00 PM
Free // All Welcome

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Rebecca Aloisio and Mitch Goldstein have been collaborating as educators and creative practitioners for over a decade. Both artists explore methodologies of joinery: through collage, appropriation, and assemblage.  The title of the exhibition comes from the woodworking term rabbet, which is a step-shaped recess cut along the edge of a piece of wood, typically forming a match to another piece in order to join them together.

The concept of a rabbet — or the joining of two discrete elements — relates both literally and conceptually to the work shown in this exhibition. Shared concepts, structures, formal elements, and techniques come together in this two-person exhibition, allowing new interpretations to emerge. Both artists employ hybrid-collage methods to make unique works in painting, sculpture, video and installation. 

About the artists:

Rebecca Aloisio's work centers on fabrication and simulation, using painting, collage, sculpture and printing. Pairing modern technologies with hand-generated images, flat and spatial elements, the resulting work create a visual tension of colors, patterns, and composition that are neither real, nor invented.  Aloisio is currently senior lecturer at RIT's College of Art and Design. 

Mitch Goldstein approaches his work at the intersections of anxiety and calm, chaos and clarity. His sculptures are often a collision of disparate materials sitting in an aggressive synthesis with each other. Goldstein is the author of How to Be a Design Student (Princeton University Press) and professor at RIT's College of Art and Design.