In conjunction with Angle of Repose, RAM is pleased to present a conversation between exhibiting artists Ali Vaughan and Gallery Director Rachel McCullah Wainwright, exploring the concepts and themes present in the current exhibition.
After the conversation, poet Josh Ascherman and artist Harry Cole will join to discuss The Rock Cycle, an artist book created in collaboration with Ali Vaughan. The three worked closely on the book, which includes reproductions of Vaughan’s drawings, Ascherman’s poetry, and quotations from the bibliography of shared references. Cole created each book in the edition of 20 by hand.
The Rock Cycle is available for purchase in person or online.
Doors open at 10:00. Light refreshments. No RSVP is required.
Ali Vaughan is a Richmond, California-based artist who works primarily in oil painting, drawing, and sculpture. Born and raised in Bakersfield, California, Vaughan holds dual BA degrees in Art Practice (with Honors) and Art History from Stanford University. Her process-based abstraction is rooted in explorations of place, memory, and identity, offering viewers complex, multi-layered experiences of space and time.
Harry Cole is a visual artist currently based in Seattle, Washington, on the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People. Working in painting, printmaking, and photography, his practice is concerned with the use of material investigation and framing devices to contemplate place, memory, and belonging.
Cole received a BA with Honors in Art Practice from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Barbara and Sandy Dornbusch Award in Painting.
Josh Ascherman is a poet and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His practice concerns detritus: things that accumulate by accident, are within reach but have no apparent use, or have been left behind as concrete evidence of events. He has an MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College, where he was a recipient of the Truman Capote Foundation Fellowship; Architrave Press has published his work and has been recognized with the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize by the Department of English at Harvard University..