
Ry McCullough, No. 4 BLT with Avocado (detail), 2018, screenprint, woodcut, and collage on paper, 30 x 21 in., courtesy of the artist
The Contemporary Dayton presents Remix. Exhibiting artists are Jason Lee from Morgantown, West Virginia, Ry McCullough from Tampa, Florida, Whitney Sage from Blissfield, Michigan. These three emerging artists will show idiosyncratic abstractions of everyday life through a selection of drawings, prints and sculptures.
Jason Lee
Ry McCullough
Whitney Sage
Artist's Video Intro
About the Artist
Jason Lee is currently an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Foundations Coordinator in the School of Art and Design at West Virginia University in Morgantown. A multi-media sculptor and installation artist, Lee incorporates a wide variety of materials and techniques into his oddly humorous constructions and presentations. In some of Lee’s most recent work he utilizes custom fabricated architectural steel elements as well as slip cast porcelain and embossed paper to create his vision of the idealized suburban landscape. Lee received the 2008 SECAC Individual Artists Fellowship and recently had work featured at the J&J Smith Gallery in Syracuse, NY and in the 2016 Tallahassee International at the Florida State University Museum of Art in Tallahassee, FL. Lee was born in Goldsboro, NC, received his BFA from Kent State University and his MFA from University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Artist Statement
— Jason Lee
Checklist
2. Respectable Street: #1, 2018, painted slip cast porcelain, steel, birch plywood, 24 x 20 x 10 in., $950
3. Respectable Street: #2, 2018, painted slip cast porcelain, steel, birch plywood, 24 x 20 x 10 in., $950
4. Respectable Street: #3, 2018, painted slip cast porcelain, steel, birch plywood, 24 x 20 x 10 in., $950
5. Respectable Street: #4, 2018, painted slip cast porcelain, steel, birch plywood, 24 x 20 x 10 in., $950
6. Suburban Home, 2015, steel, embossed paper, screenprint, aluminum, cast plastic, 96 x 36 x 36 in., $6,000
7. Room Without a Window, 2018, cast rubber, steel, aluminum, cast plastic, wood, paint, 72 x 48 x 48 in. $6,500
8. Blatant Localism, 2018, steel, Bondo, luan, 24 x 20 x 10 in. $1200
9. I Hope You Learned Something, 2018, packing blankets, ratchet straps, steel, cast plastic, aluminum, 48 x 72 x 36 in., $7,000
10. Mad Garden, press board, steel cast rubber, enamel paint, 96 x 120 x 192 in.
11. Valley of the Yakes, 2019, blown glass, cast rubber, acrylic paint, 24 x 96 x 48 in.
Artist's Video Intro
About the Artist
Artist Statement
—Ry McCullough
Checklist
12. Table of Unnamable Things 1, 2020, collage with diverse papers, 14.5 x 11 in., $800
13. Encyclopedic Tarp, 2020, collage with diverse papers, 14.5 x 11 in., $800
14. Escape Hatch, 2020, collage with diverse papers, 14.5 x 11 in., $800
15. Expanded Room, 2020, collage with diverse papers, 14.5 x 11, $800
16. Orange on a Window Sill, 2020, collage with diverse papers, 14.5 x 11 in., $800
17. Plume in the Room (O), 2020, collage with diverse papers, 14.5 x 11 in., $800
18. Soundtrack for the Assembled Plane (I), 2020, collage with diverse papers, 14.5 x 11 in., $800
19. Soundtrack for the Assembled Plane (II), 2020, collage with diverse papers, 14.5 x 11 in., $800
20. Table of Unnamable Things (II), 2020, collage with diverse papers, 14.5 x 11 in., $800
21. Soundtrack for the Assembled Plane (III,) 2020, collage with diverse papers, 14.5 x 11 in. $800.
22. No. 4 BLT with Avocado, 2018, screenprint, woodcut, and collage on paper, 30 x 21 in. $900
23. No. 12(Pastrami on Rye), 2018, screenprint, woodcut, and collage on paper, 30 x 21 in. $900
24. No. 1 (Dagwood), 2018, screenprint, woodcut, and collage on paper, 30 x 21 in. $900
25. Throne Room Over Easy, 2018, collaged printed material mounted on paper, 11 x 11 in. $450
26. Scarecrow, 2018, collaged printed material mounted on paper, 11 x 11 in. $450
27. Bubble and Squeak, 2018, collaged printed material mounted on paper, 11 x 11 in. $450
About the Artist
Artist Statement
Focusing my lens on a more personal perspective of urban evolution and it’s toll on families and neighborhoods, Homesickness Series is an ongoing series that addresses empathetic issues of loss as related to our relationship with home and the individual and collective stories lost in the life cycles of urban degradation. Homesickness Series consists of a series of ink paintings modeled after historic tin-type portrait photographs that documents homes and lots in a state of flux; what’s present, what’s absent and what’s no longer knowable. The ink paintings are displayed juxtaposed with Domestic Fragments, a series of plaster found object assemblage sculptures. Through means of display, the sculptures are meant to function in conversation with the painted series and serve as domestic “artifacts” representing the loss of the home, the loss of people and the related loss of memory. Combining disparate fragments of domesticity, parts of toys, dishes, photos, tools, bricks, linens, etc., these artifacts are familiar, yet appear foreign. Within each assemblage object the domestic fragments morph and disappear into abstracted plaster geological forms; the objects are visually present, yet seem physically absent/inaccessible. While these displayed objects relate the collection of mementos as attempts to hold on to memories and connections with place, the idea of the artifact also relates to common depictions of post-industrial cities as abandoned “blank slates” open for reinvention while failing to recognize or take into consideration the histories and communities that still remain.”
—Whitney Sage
Checklist
- Neighbors, Homesickness Series, 2018, ink on paper, 18 x 21 in.
14 x 20 in. signed, editioned digital reproduction prints on watercolor paper available for $250 (10 available, edition of 10)
- Family Room, Homesickness Series, 2017, ink on paper, 8 x 11 in.
8 x 10 in. signed, editioned digital reproduction prints on watercolor paper available for $150 (8 available, edition of 10)
- White Picket Fence, Homesickness Series, 2017, ink on paper, 18 x 22 in.
14 x 20 in. signed, editioned digital reproduction prints on watercolor paper available for $250 (9 available, edition of 10)
- Threshold, Homesickness Series, 2018, Ink on paper, 10 x 10 in.
10 x 10 in. signed, editioned digital reproduction prints on watercolor paper available for $150 (10 available, edition of 10)
- Cottage, Homesickness Series, 2017, ink on paper, 18 x 22 in.
14 x 19 in. signed, editioned digital reproduction prints on watercolor paper available for $250 (9 available, edition of 10)
- Foundation, Homesickness Series, 2017, ink on paper, 18 x 22 in.
14 x 19in. signed, editioned digital reproduction prints on watercolor paper available for $250 (10 available, edition of 10)
- Single Family Home, Homesickness Series, 2017, ink on paper, 17 x 20 in.
14 x 18 in. signed, editioned digital reproduction prints on watercolor paper available for $250 (10 available, edition of 10)
- Lone Victorian, Homesickness Series, 2016, ink on paper, 17 x 20 in.
14 x 19 in. signed, editioned digital reproduction prints on watercolor paper available for $250 (10 available, edition of 10)
- Domestic Fragments Series (Installation view), 2017, plaster and found objects, NFS
- Domestic Fragments Series (Installation view), 2017, plaster and found objects, NFS
- Child’s Artifact, Domestic Fragments Series, 2017, Plaster and stuffed animal, 4 x 6 x 2 in., NFS
Annual Support: Culture Works, the Dayton Foundation, the Dayton Power & Light Foundation, Montgomery County Arts & Cultural District, Ohio Arts Council, the Virginia W. Kettering Foundation, and Members.