CHESTERTON ART CENTER DISEMBARKS WITH EMILY CASELLA EXHIBITION: IN EMOTION TO ENTRAIN
EXHIBITION: JULY 8–AUGUST 30, 2023
ARTIST RECEPTION: JULY 15, 12–2 PM
CERAMIC BUST WORKSHOP: JULY 20, 6–9 PM
3RD FRIDAY SPECIAL EVENT: JULY 21, 4–7 PM
ARTIST TALK: JULY 27, 5:30–7:00 PM
Chesterton Art Center is excited to announce our next exhibit, In Emotion to Entrain, featuring the work of Emily Casella, July 8–August 30, 2023. An artist reception will be held on Saturday, July 15, from 12–2 PM. All of our exhibitions and artist receptions are free and open to the public. Casella is also involved in additional programming with CAC including a Ceramic Bust Workshop on Thursday, July 20, from 6–9 PM; Chesterton Arts District evening event, on July 21, 4–7 PM, as part of Chesterton’s 3rd Fridays; and an Artist Talk on Thursday, July 27, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM.
In 90 seconds every emotion will disembark. In Emotion on Entrain conveys multitudes of expressions and choices a being can experience in life. The multi-room installation displays confusion and fondness for humanity at the artist’s current platform of age twenty-eight. “In life we have these moments, like stopping points, and steps we have to take or could take. How confusing it all is. One path to the next in life, love, building family, career, religion. How you feel and how society feels,” says mixed media artist and educator, Emily Casella, about her solo exhibition.
The artworks transform the Chesterton Art Center’s galleries into a train station where viewers can mingle at a cafe kiosk, hop inside a train, and disembark into a vibrant neighborhood park in full color and three dimensions. Each piece poses a different conundrum of thought about the strange motions of life propelled by what society implies, tries to control, or demands what should be versus how an individual may feel.
“This show is about love, the trepidation and exasperation of waiting for the promises that media and society told us what love should be, and trying to find what it actually is on Earth.”
To learn more about Chesterton Art Center, visit www.chestertonart.org, or call (219) 926-4711.
Gazing Turns Into. (Detail), color pencil/ebony pencil on paper, 7’ x 6’4” diptych
The Wheel of Options, glazed ceramics