Curated by Anne Harris

Opens October 12th
Artist talk/closing reception: November 5th, 3 – 5:00 pm

 

277 Gage Road: Kristine Aono, hosted by Cathy and Jim Louthen

280 Gage Road: Joanne Aono, hosted by Paul D’Amato and Anne Harris

 

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Project description:

 

Artists and twin sisters Joanne and Kristine Aono described their exhibition plans to us as follows:
 

“Our installation is a celebration of the friendship of neighbors, specifically, your families who share years of conversation, support, and love for one another, as well as meals of aglio e olio. 

We are also inspired by the words from this Cesar Chavez quote:
 
If you really want to make a friend,
go to someone's house and eat with him...
the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Similar to how your parkway trees “talk to each other,” we will be connecting your yards to one another in visual and metaphorical ways. Using lines of “pasta” we will link one neighbor to the other. The abstract ‘pasta’ will wind its way from stylized racks of drying pasta in the Harris/D’Amato’s yard to platters in the Louthen’s. Tendrils of pasta lines will wander up the line of trees that lead from one family’s home to the other's.”


 

Artists’ bios:
 

Joanne Aono makes drawings, paintings, and installations. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as the Illinois State Museum (Springfield), the Zhou B Art Center (Chicago), the Riverside Arts Center (Riverside, IL), Firecat Projects (Chicago), and most recently at Gallery 201 at Argonne National Laboratories in Lemont, Illinois.

Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Hyperallergic, ArtLetter and the Huffington Post. Ms. Aono also founded and co-directs Cultivator Exhibitions and Farm Projects which is an exhibition program based on her farm in Morris, IL.

 

Kristine Aono is a sculptor and installation artist. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as the National Academy of Design (NYC), the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC), the Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles), the Bronx Museum of Art and most recently, at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art in Evanston, Illinois. She’s been awarded numerous grants including the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist/ Public Projects Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, and Art Matters. Ms. Aono is based in the Washington DC metro area.
 

 

http://joanneaono.com/home.html

 

http://kristineaono.com/home.html