K H A K I
G A L L E R Y
460 Harrison Ave. Boston, MA 02118, 617-423-0105
9 Crest Road, Wellesley, MA 02482, 781-237-1095
www.khakigallery.net , khaki@khakigallery.net
For immediate release:
February, 2010
Barry Osbourn “Control Panel”
Elisabeth Jerome Applbaum “Night Light”
March 2-31, 2010, Reception: March 5, 6-8
Khaki Gallery Boston is pleased to present works by two of its gallery
artists: “Control Panel,” by Barry Osbourn, and “Night Light,” by
Elisabeth Jerome Applbaum.
Barry Osbourn is an MFA graduate of Otis College of Art and Design in Los
Angeles as well as a Post-Baccaluereatte graduate of The School of the
Museum of Fine Arts of Boston. Osbourn maintains a multidisciplinary
practice working in a variety of mediums as well as within the field of art
education. In addition to an ongoing history of visual art exhibitions he is
currently pursuing a second masters degree in art education. “My work
engages the language of abstract painting by taking up it’s vocabulary and
investing it with a critical practice of synthetic hybridization…As an artist, I
am continually interested in the gap between what we perceive and what we
believe or comprehend…My paintings are objects that play with the codes of
aesthetic association and pictorial space, often taking an ironic position. My
work intentionally indulges in the material affirmation of paint and the
subjective use or misuse of pictorial illusion to generate cognitive
dissonance…I do not attempt to solve or prove anything specific but to
complicate the solidification of signs, categories and binaries. My practice
is driven by a desire to explore the possibilities of visual slang and the
threshold between representation and abstraction while working towards the
development of my own idiolect.” Osbourn was born in Kansas City,
Missouri and currently lives and works there.
Elisabeth Jerome Applbaum earned her BA in Visual Art and Art History
from Barnard College, Columbia University and supplemented her degree
with classes at The School of Visual Art, The International Center for
Photography, and with graduate-level study at the School of The Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston. Her travels have taken her to live in New York, Boston,
and the Detroit area, where as a newcomer, Jerome used her camera as a
means to tour her new locale during the lonely hours of night: “The sites are
chosen using the tools of street photography: exploration and waiting. All
are places I consider home: where I was raised, where my family first
settled, where my education led me, where I found work. This project
allows me to understand a new culture from observation, without being
accepted as a newcomer. This project is an education through immersion,
testing my ‘American’ fluency level.” Elisabeth Jerome Applbaum is
originally from Dallas, Texas and currently lives in Jerusalem.