RED HANDED
A gallery installation experience by ROSEMARY FEIT COVEY
June 21st, 2013 - June 5th, 2013
EXHIBITION LOCATION
Morton Fine Art (MFA)
1781 Florida Ave NW (at 18th & U Sts)
Washington, DC 20009
HOURS
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 12pm-5pm
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, June 21st from 6pm-8pm
The artist will be in attendance.
About Red Handed:
Rosemary Feit Covey's Red Handed is a complete
gallery installation project which combines drawings printed on both
hand and commercial printers. The prints are then made into paintings,
or left rough on cheap paper. Covey's exploration in media
and method has evolved and is comprised of wall-wrapped images and an
all-encompassing floor piece - the major part of the installation -
which forces the viewer to walk on the art. The image is meant to have no beginning and no end.
Red Handed began as a set of drawings and printed
columns during Covey's 2012 residency at Spiro Arts in Utah. The initial
drawing appeared as a steam of conscience image. It was at first
unclear why red hands kept appearing on her running figures, Covey feels it is connected to guilt.
Inspiration for Red Handed:
Referencing Dore, Modigliani and Picasso's Guernica - Red Handed raises issue of collective versus personal guilt.
"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of
collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery
of the culprit, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for
doing nothing."
-Hannah Arendt
"For all survivors of suicide the question of guilt
opens a maw that fills and envelopes adding to the pain, shock and
sorrow. A murder has been committed where the murderer can not be
blamed. The past becomes the framework for constant reexamination. I
had to ask myself - why did this image spring whole from my
imagination? I had to wait and allow my thoughts to unearth the past.
Guilt is the most personal of emotions and universal only when we take
it on ourselves before we look at the rest." -Rosemary Feit Covey
About ROSEMARY FEIT COVEY:
Rosemary Feit Covey was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. In a career
spanning three decades she has exhibited internationally and received
countless awards. Covey's work is in numerous national and international
museum and library collections.
Select collections
include the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the New York Public Library
Collection of Prints and Drawings; the Papyrus Institute, Cairo, Egypt;
the National Library of Australia, Canberra; The National Museum of
American History; Georgetown University Library Print Collection;
Harvard University Library; and Princeton University Library.
Georgetown
University Library currently houses 512 of her wood engravings in their
permanent collection. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at the
Evergreen Museum at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 2014.
Red Handed marks Covey's third annual exhibition at Morton Fine Art.
