AMoCA Collection | Fugacious, painted wood, 34” x 21” x 13”, 2005
RAIR | 2005
Mollie Oblinger | Oshkosh, WI
Mollie Oblinger’s work explores the environment, often focusing on water issues. Her recent exhibitions include solo shows at MacRostie Art Center in Minnesota, Furman University in South Carolina and Sierra College in California. She was an artist-in-residence at Playa in Oregon in 2015 and the Alpena Wildlife Sanctuary in Michigan in 2012. Mollie received an MFA in studio art from the University of California, Davis, and a BFA in sculpture from Syracuse University. She is currently an associate professor and chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Ripon College in Wisconsin.
Born out of an acute attention to her surroundings, Mollie Oblinger's work draws on nature's most covert operations. The hidden but hugely industrious workings of termites, the invisible replication of a virus within an organism, and the intricacies of the human anatomy all act as inspiration for complex assemblages of color and form. By using the shapes between shapes, the spaces behind spaces, Oblinger subverts the negative and positive, creating an arresting and unfamiliar visual language. Painted wood, felt and silicone seem to grow out from the wall, up from the floor, and down from the ceiling, creating chance encounters between opposing sensibilities. Soft and hard, nature and artifice, fact and fiction commingle seamlessly in Oblinger's invented landscapes.
— Joey Fauerso, 2005
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Rair exhibition • Mollie oblinger • April 8 - May 28, 2006
