BALL & SOCKET ART GARAGE SHOW 3 opens AUGUST 8

Ball & Socket Arts presents the third of four planned art exhibitions in its temporary satellite space Art Garage, located at 530 West Main Street in Cheshire, CT. The show, titled “The Space It Takes” will be on display August 8 through August 30, 2015. The gallery is free and open to the public weekends 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. 


The show will feature sculpture and installation work by four artists - Crystal Gregory, Blinn Jacobs, Alex Paik and Debra Ramsey.

More information is available online at www.ballandsocket.org.


Art Garage is a project of Ball & Socket Arts, a major new arts and community center under development in Cheshire. The mission of the project is to give the public a taste of what is to come when the center opens in 2017 and to provide a point of contact between the public and founders Kevin Daly, Jeffrey Guimond and Ilona Somogyi, who are often present to meet people and talk about the project. Art Garage will be open through October 3, 2015.


Crystal Gregory is a sculptor whose work investigates textile structure through a variety of materials. Gregory was granted a Full Merit Scholarship to attend The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an MFA from the Fiber and Material Studies Department. In 2013 Gregory was awarded The Leonore Annenberg Fellowship and moved to Amsterdam to take a position as Artist-In-Residence at The Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Art. She has shown in galleries nationally and abroad and has received fellowships to attend artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Gregory live and works in Brooklyn.

Blinn Jacobs describes the basis of his work as a dialogue between polygonal “shaped” canvases and the use of “painterliness” in regard to the interaction of color. Some of the works retain surface clarity; others become saturated by manipulation of graphic marks and various media. All involve a process-oriented manner that allows for discovery and a freedom to extemporize. He is interested in using a variety of materials, sometimes in whimsical and surprising ways that playfully undermine the geometric formality of the work. Whether it is delicate weavings of ribbon or intersecting planes of transparent color where the hard edges are cajoled into an animated rhythm, he merges movement with stability, transparency with opacity, and labor with play. Jacobs lives and works in Branford, Connecticut and is represented by the Fred.Giampietro Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.

Alex Paik was born in 1981 in Oxnard, California and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited recently at Schema Projects, Drawing Rooms, Storefront Ten Eyck, Space Pittsburgh, Millsaps College, Nancy Margolis Gallery, and Parallel Art Space. Recent solo shows include Paper Constructs at Guest Spot @ The Reinstitute, and Recapitulation Bop at Gallery Joe. Paik’s work has been in several art fairs, including Drawing Now: Paris, Amsterdam Drawing, Pulse:New York and Miami, artMRKT San Francisco, and Texas Contemporary. He is currently represented by Gallery Joe in Philadelphia and is the director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a network of artist-run spaces with locations in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles.

Debra Ramsay is an abstract artist working in the disciplines of painting, drawing and installation. She maintains a full time studio practice in New York City. Ramsay was awarded a 2016 residency at the Albers Foundation, a 2013 residency at the Golden Foundation in New Berlin, NY and in 2012 a fellowship at BAU Institute in Otranto, Italy. Ramsay’s 2014 exhibition venues included Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden Pocket Utopia in Chelsea, NYC and The Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ. In 2013 she had a solo show titled MAT/tam, curated by Lucio Pozzi at Palazzo Costa, in Mantova, Italy. She will be in a two-person show at TSA Gallery in Brooklyn and a group exhibition at Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, in February, 2015.