Bobbie Moline-Kramer: The Power of One

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Bobbie Moline-Kramer, The Power of One

Based on both astronomy and astrology, Moline-Kramer's mixed-media star chart paintings are individual portraits revealing and pointing to the power a singular person possesses to have a wide-reaching positive impact on our humanity that changes the until then anticipated course of history.

"The concept of this body of work is twofold: the wonder of our world, the power of one person to change that world. When I was still in my early teens I discovered through the Vietnam protest movement the power of one person to change the course of history, to change the world; that lesson has stayed with me. The people I most admire are those individuals whose passion for a cause has governed both their business and personal lives, who have lived both in the spotlight and the shadows. I've chosen a broad spectrum of leaders in different fields, varying ages, varying times to show the endless possibilities of potential individualism combined with a powerful passion for change. Jesus, a radical, gentle agitator whose philosophy mines the power of passive resistance and active belief; Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an ardent feminist whose belief in fairness combined activism with the law; Stacy Abrams, a black legend in the fight for voting rights for all who is succeeding against all odds; Greta Thunberg, an autistic teenager whose passion for the earth's health has spawned a wide environmental movement that crosses country borders; John F. Kennedy, a charismatic political leader who inspired generations to give back and to "ask what you can do for your country"; and Dolly Parton, a music icon whose donations to Vanderbilt University of Medicine, helped make the breakthrough science for the Covid-19 vaccine possible. In this time of strife, obstinance, and contention it helps me to look up, to see the beauty and wonder of the natural world, to look towards the stars. When I decided to paint my own "stars" it seemed natural to frame them with their own personal references; birth, death and in some cases both as well as astrological symbols from their charts. In the 3-D sculptures, each hanging line is made of abstract shapes; they are etchings in 3 dimensions filled with parts from a persons painting - each line represents one painting. "

                                                                                            --Bobbie Moline-Kramer

Contextually, Moline-Kramer's paintings inhabit a world that stretches from Carl Jung's concept of the universal consciousness to modern day astrology and witchcraft. Her sculptures that are hanging from the gallery's ceiling - comprised of 12 separate 3-D printed translucent abstract shapes with image details from a specific painting in the exhibit - are reminiscent of objects of worship. Moline-Kramer's new body of work elucidates the synergy between the science of facts and the belief in legends and symbols; this creates a moment captured in time that is at once shared with all of humanity while reflecting that person's beliefs and the world both they and the viewer inhabit.

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Castello 925 presents a two-person exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Bobbie Moline-Kramer and paintings by Antonio Pauciulo opening 20 April and running through 10 July, 2022.

 

California-based artist Bobbie Moline-Kramer's exhibition The Power of One is an installation that spans both time and space using the study of constellations as a touchstone. The astrological profiles of various heroic individuals were selected because of their courage to make a difference in the world. Using 16th-century glazing and gilding techniques, Moline-Kramer incises unique sky charts particular to each leader with the same precision that antique celestial maps were prepared and painted by Italian and Dutch Renaissance masters. Another Moline-Kramer painting series depicts a family tree of birds representing the artist's own ancestry and embedded history. However, Moline-Kramer does not just linger in the past but creates an adjacent installation that employs cutting edge technology to deconstruct her paintings into 3-D computer printed layers. Each layer of this installation is suspended from the ceiling and appears as ephemeral, variously hued flakes of sky floating down to earth. This paradoxical synergy combines facts with mysticism, mythology with mathematics, and traditional Renaissance technique with 21st century computer printing technology renders this exhibition not only about time and space but most importantly, about being.In the artist's own words: "The concept of this body of work is twofold: the wonder of our world,and the power of one person to change that world.  

 

About Bobbie Moline-Kramer

Bobbie Moline-Kramer has exhibited at the Katzen Art Center Museum, American University, Washington, DC, MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles, CA,

UNIFEM, United Nations, NYC, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at NYCarnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA (2000, 2005, and 2012); Diane Nelson Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA (2001 and 2002); Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (2003); Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles (2006); Red House Gallery, Venice, CA (2007); LCG Gallery, Studio City, CA (2010) James R. Reynolds Art Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and Red Pipe Gallery, Los Angeles (all 2015);Waterloo Center for the Arts, Waterloo, IA (2018);  Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago  and Elizabeth M. Sinnock Gallery, Quincy Arts Center, Quincy, IL (2019) and most recently at Lichtundfire Gallery, New York City (2021). This is the first time Ms. Moline-Kramer exhibits her work in Venice, Italy.

About Castello 925

Castello 925 is a multi-disciplinary gallery which serves as a crucible for the visual arts, literature and culture. Founder Luca Caldironi envisioned a space dedicated to creativity, or rather cre-activity, an all-embracing 360-degree innovative nexus offering plenty of opportunity for imagination. Castello 925 is a gallery where experimental expressions of all kinds come to meet, collaborate, improvise, produce and construct; a place to present “finished” works that were built elsewhere, yet also a space where new ideas and new co-operations come to life. Castello 925 provides room to live and breathe — not just for exhibitions, but support for the everyday life of an artist, the quietude of  a writer’s research, or the exchange between passionate art-seekers and collectors.

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