Tracings Revisited - Tonia Di Risio

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The Red Head Gallery is pleased to present Tracings Revisited an exhibition of new work by artist Tonia Di Risio.

As part of an ongoing exploration of collage, Di Risio’s most recent installation revisits work which began as tracings of objects found in her grandmother’s house. Guided by her memory of these domestic spaces, and offered in grateful remembrance of a familial home, Di Risio combines ornate patterns and textures with thrifted and personal objects to compose wall-based works. Tracings Revisited presents scaled-up drawings of period furniture cut from vintage wallpaper, both reminiscent of Italianate décor. These mingle with fragments of furniture, collected silver trays and crystal dishes which extend into the gallery space and serve as both personal tribute and interpretation of a former place. Accompanying the larger collages is a series of black marker silhouettes overlaid on pages of popular North American cookbooks, continuing the artist’s evolving interest in the custom of passing down and sharing recipes. With Tracings Revisited, Di Risio extends a decorative vernacular into a broader understanding of how one’s experiences with objects, patterns and textures serve to shape memory and personal narrative.

An exhibition essay by artist and curator Fausta Facciponte accompanies this exhibition; read the full essay at Redheadgallery.org

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• Exhibition Essay redheadgallery.org

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Red Head Gallery

The Red Head Gallery is a professional artists’ collective committed to exhibiting the work of established and emerging artists and to encourage work that is critically engaged within a wide range of contemporary discourse.

Red Head artists create images and objects, manipulate spaces both theoretical and physical, participate in and organize events, and seek out opportunities to interact with other arts organizations locally, nationally, and internationally. Member artists have made The Red Head Gallery a continually evolving success and a place where significant careers are nurtured and sustained. Red Head artists, both past and present, maintain a high profile and consistently attract critical attention. The gallery's exhibitions have been highlighted and reviewed in noted newspapers, national and international art magazines and journals, on television, and in critically engaged blogs and web art sites.

The entity that is The Red Head Gallery is more than meets the eye. It is the embodiment of a concept as well as a physical space. It is a reflection of its seventeen artist-members who inspire, challenge and support one another's discipline through exhibitions and exchanges that bring their work to the wider community. The Red Head Gallery is also a community that facilitates engagement within the visual arts, for networking, and socializing, and contributing to meaningful discourse.

The collective has exhibited at the Hermes Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Blink Gallery in Ottawa, at ARC Gallery in Chicago, at the Kunsthaus Santa Fe in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and continues to pursue additional exchanges with other galleries abroad. The work of current and past Red Head artists can be found at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada and in major institutions and collections across the country and around the world.