4/22: BEFORE VINYL SKYLINES // new works by KEVIN MALELLA

BEFORE VINYL SKYLINES
new works by KEVIN MALELLA
April 22 – May 5

Opening Reception: Friday, April 22, 6-9
Open Hours: Sunday, April 25, noon-5
and by appointment 607.351.8692

The Plaines Project
1822 S Desplaines Street

BEFORE VINYL SKYLINES features a new body of work exploring urban and industrial landscapes through cyanotype photograms of plant object arrangements. In this project, Malella continues his interests in both the collaboration and struggle between natural processes and human persistence as well as their perceived dissonance by which our physical world is shaped.

Much of Malella’s recent work deals primarily with a collision of three elements: nature, human activity, and time. For him, “time” is the key factor in the relationship between humans and nature as one seemingly dominates the other in procession, only again to be succeeded, thus exposing how indistinct they are from each other. Human activity subverts nature and nature consequently emerges from its displaced form, both contributing a permanent mark of their singular progression over time.

KEVIN MALELLA is a Chicago-based photographer whom has become primarily concerned with the direction we navigate this planet and the significant relationship between all things physical and imagined. He received his BFA in Photography at Central Washington University and his MFA at Columbia College Chicago. Malella is a recipient of a C. Farrell Merit Scholarship, Albert P. Weisman Grant, Jeannie Pierce Award and was a resident artist at Harold Arts and ACRE. He is represented locally by the Schneider Gallery Chicago and is currently exhibiting both nationally and internationally.

More information about Kevin Malella can be found at kevinmalella.com.