October 2020
Jenny Casey, Shelby Feltoon, Sian Robertson

SoWa First Friday Art Walk: Friday, October 2, 2020, 5:00–8:00PM
Sian Robertson will be present for 6:00–7:00PM
Jenny Casey for 7:00–8:00PM

Artists Jenny Casey, Shelby Feltoon, and Sian Robertson invite us to travel through the perceived and intangible. Expressing emotion through painting, photography and collage, these three artists use vivid color, texture, light, and layering to highlight moments of perception that lead the viewer to contemplate the past, the in-between, and the future.

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Jenny Casey

Jenny Casey is an abstract painter whose work is inspired by her passion to express raw emotions and vulnerability on canvas. She paints in a meditative way stemming from her own thoughts as one evolves from the previous. She incorporates bold colors and textures, which evoke a sculptural feel on canvas. Her work depicts feelings of release, while simultaneously balancing the process of refinement and restraint.

Casey has extensive experience as a graphic designer and art director. She earned a BFA from James Madison University in graphic design. Her fine art has been exhibited across the country including Walter Wickiser Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea Gallery District, the SOFA Art Fair in Chicago and the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Virginia. She currently works and resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Shelby Feltoon

Shelby Feltoon is an artist who gives her ideas physical form through prints, paintings, and light and reflection-based installations. She relies heavily on the manipulation of found and gifted imagery to shed light on the importance of honoring each other’s memories and histories. She is interested in the ways we attempt to preserve memory, turning something as intangible as projected light into permanent marks on a surface. Through seamlessly integrating archival images and photographed moments from her life and the lives of loved ones she has begun to feel a deep longing for invented places and versions of people that may have never existed. Her work exists as a moment for untouchable collective memories to become personal, real, and valid. Her work creates a space for remembering and reflecting fondly. A spot to quietly mourn something that was long forgotten. A place to release the weight of unacknowledged memories and have a moment of floating.

Shelby Feltoon is an interdisciplinary artist and emerging curator working in Boston MA. She graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts from the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University in 2018. In January of 2018 her father gave her a set of slides he made on a road trip 40 years ago. She closely examined this gift in an attempt to understand this past version of her father seen in the slides, and she has been dedicated to exploring and preserving others’ memories and experiences through her work ever since. Feltoon has curated exhibitions at Suffolk University Gallery, Post-Cubicle Gallery, and Kingston Gallery in Boston.

Sian Robertson

Sian Robertson creates three-dimensional art from used maps, which themselves are a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional world. When she selects maps to use in her work she’s driven almost entirely by the aesthetics of the colors and shapes within them. She ‘excavates’ the maps - hand cutting away specific areas, which then heightens the focus on others. With spaces between the roads of a map removed the viewer is able to peer deep into the mass of tangled layers of streets, perhaps a symbol of the messiness of interconnected lives. Her work has both a sense of loss, of the absence of what has been removed, and a sense of endurance, as the roads remain intact within the fragile structure of the now lace-like pages.

Robertson is a self-taught artist originally from Wales, now living in North Truro on Cape Cod. She is currently the assistant director of an art gallery in Provincetown. While Robertson has been cutting and pasting since she was about eight she began to focus on this work seriously around 2005. Robertson has had many pieces accepted into juried shows at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She has had five solo shows at Adam Peck Gallery, in Provincetown, since 2015. Robertson’s Postage Portraits were featured in Uppercase Magazine in 2015, and her map collages in Provincetown Magazine in 2016, and her 3D map work in Uppercase Magazine in 2020. She was also interviewed by Susan Rand Brown for the Provincetown Banner in 2018. Robertson occasionally teaches collage classes at both PAAM and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.