The Fuel And Lumber Company Presents: Off Kilter / In Time
works by April Bachtel and Mary Laube
Opening reception, July 2nd, 6-9pm
COOP Gallery, 507 Hagan Street Nashville, TN 37203
Hours: Sat 11am-3pm and by appointment
During the summer of 2016, COOP Gallery has asked four different curators or curatorial teams from around the region to take over their new space in the Wedgewood Houston neighborhood.
The Fuel And Lumber Company presents Off Kilter / In Time, a two-person exhibition with works by April Bachtel and Mary Laube. April Bachtel’s sculptures are made from second-hand artifacts that she dismantles and reassembles with both a violent and tender hand. In contrast to Bachtel’s rough-hewn objects, Mary Laube’s austere paintings of imagined, flattened worlds are at once familiar but removed from a reality directly perceived. Bachtel’s assembly of fragmented parts and Laube’s sharply cropped scenes distort our perspective and alter our sense of body and space.
About the artists:
April Bachtel grew up in the home of an artisan furniture maker near Akron, Ohio where she was born. She received a BA in Art Education and a BFA in Painting from Kent State University in 2011. In 2014, she received her MFA in Studio Art from University of Tennessee. She has also studied at Oxbow School of Art and Artist Residency. This summer she is completing a residency at Columbus State University in Columbus, GA. Her work has been exhibited at Roane State Community College in Harriman, TN; Des Lee Gallery in St. Louis, MO; Tahoe Gallery in Incline Village, NV; White Box Gallery in New York, NY; Co-prosperity Sphere Gallery in Chicago, IL; and at Shift Space in Wichita, KS amongst others.
Mary Laube received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and a B.F.A. from Illinois State University. Laube’s work has been included in various group and solo exhibitions across the U.S. Her work has been supported by several artist residencies including the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She received the Illinois National Women in the Arts Award (Chicago) in 2009 and a Project Grant from the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts in 2014. Her paintings have been featured in New American Paintings and her writing was recently published in Kapsula Magazine (Toronto). In 2015 she was the Fanoon Visiting Artist at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar. Laube currently teaches at the University of Tennessee- Chattanooga.
