"One Mile" is an exhibition of works by Karen Gibson, Chris Clark, Marie DesMarais and Janel Frey. All artists who have shown their work at Proximity within the last year,  share a common thread, they live within one mile of each other in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia. Each artist, with their distinctive style, will be gathering together to showcase their work individually as well as collaboratively.

CHRIS CLARK - A master of creating environments that leave you with a feeling of being taken out of time as well as out of place.  Clark's blending of organic forms with manufactured surfaces suggests technology run amok and a natural world in accelerated flux. These richly layered and obsessively detailed environments render a vivid depiction of the broad horizon of construction, planning, and destruction.

MARIE DESMARAIS- DesMarais' work shares a fascination with the shapes and colors of cartography. Deconstructing, rearranging and layering maps.... her adjusted worlds are filled with a mix of organic cell-like entities and square intentional shapes. Marie's work is an amalgamation of precise scientific calculations joined together with the fluidity of abstract forms.Throughout the work there is a sense of play and meaning amidst the abstraction. 

KAREN GIBSON- Gibson approaches her new work like an exquisite corpse, piecing together fragments of her drawings and paintings. The result is an interplay of seemingly disparate visual images reconfigured into a present day dream-like world of chaos. 

JANEL FREY- Frey's most recent work focuses on portraying a world altered by contamination. She creates atmospheres where different layers intermingle in a environment plagued by pollution.  Frey's use of deep tones and vivid colors play against each other to suggest how a world effected by toxins can remain eerily attractive.