Works by
Wade Kramm
Alison Safford

January 25 – February 23, 2007

This exhibition brings together the works of Wade Kramm and Alison Safford. By examining the ways we perceive and understand the world, both artists seek to reveal that which is hidden from us in our ordinary experiences. Although both artists construct works using familiar things, each filter them through a distinct series of questions. Kramm uses ordinary objects to explore our perceptions and to pose the idea that the world is not as it appears. Safford makes works that expose and investigate how the body processes and communicates information.

Kramm, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native, studied sculpture at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island School of Design. He recently received the Artist Resource Trust grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Inc. and in the past has been awarded grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Recent exhibitions include A.R.T. Grant Award Show, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts; Wade Kramm and Tom Koole, Old Dominion University Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia; and Black, White and Shades of Gray, South Shore Art Center Galleries, Cohasset, Massachusetts. He currently lives and works in Rhode Island.

Safford studied sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, Alfred, New York. She recently received a Massachusetts Cultural Grant for sculpture, the Artist’s Valentine Grant, Groton, Massachusetts, and a Windows Art Project Grant, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, Massachusetts. Recent exhibitions include Multisensory: Visual Responses to Memory and Synesthesia, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island; The Quality of Quantity, artSPACE@16, Malden, Massachusetts, and EAT, University or Arkansas Art Department Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas. She lives and works in Massachusetts.