Exhibition Archives
Preservation/Conservation
through June 19, 2009 - Terminal Three
Today we are reminded regularly of our diminishing natural resources as well as our ongoing, often greedy, desires for more material goods. How is it we continue to consume and produce more and more but have so much less to show for it? Yet how do we conserve our physical and spiritual resources and preserve the ephemeral nature of life and living? The five artists included in this exhibition show us different ways of understanding this and fulfilling this need by creating various strategies of preservation and conservation in their work.
Jane Brucker preserves the temporal and fragile nature of human existence and the link between memory, experience and death in her Memorial Project - White. From found and donated articles of clothing, she has created simple memorials from the shirts, dresses, pants, skirts, underwear, sheets, and blankets we leave behind when we move or die. They are meditations on the poetry of detail and are records of the delicacy of life.
Barbara Drucker preserves time. In her thirteen-part suite called Calendar Notations (gouache on vellum), she has marked the days of the months in various colors to denote certain rituals and astrological days of the year. The idea of faith is preserved in her sculpture, FAITH/HTAFI, with metal letters filled with soil and dried grass.
Monica Furmanski conserves nature as a moment in time through her digital photographic images and installations. Photography captures a moment in time thus preserving it for posterity. Furmanski edits her images to remove the debris, the detritus that obstructs our view, our vision of clarity, of truth. Mapping a new terrain, she shows us what is essential to preserve and conserve at this point in time.
Linda King suspends time preserving a moment, a memory. In this suite of oil paintings we can appreciate not only the reflection on a place that acts to mark a memory, perhaps a loss, but also the preservation of the original starting point of the painting in its simplicity and purity of color in different parts of the paintings.
Nancy Macko conserves the purity and simplicity of abstract thought in her print series, The First Ten Prime Numbers, Suite II and The Dark Matter Series, 1-3. Constructing the units as hive clusters, these works examine the vastness of space and the relevance of the mark or moment in their representation of fundamental mathematical concepts.
Nancy Macko
Curator
February, 2009
Jane Brucker preserves the temporal and fragile nature of human existence and the link between memory, experience and death in her Memorial Project - White. From found and donated articles of clothing, she has created simple memorials from the shirts, dresses, pants, skirts, underwear, sheets, and blankets we leave behind when we move or die. They are meditations on the poetry of detail and are records of the delicacy of life.
Barbara Drucker preserves time. In her thirteen-part suite called Calendar Notations (gouache on vellum), she has marked the days of the months in various colors to denote certain rituals and astrological days of the year. The idea of faith is preserved in her sculpture, FAITH/HTAFI, with metal letters filled with soil and dried grass.
Monica Furmanski conserves nature as a moment in time through her digital photographic images and installations. Photography captures a moment in time thus preserving it for posterity. Furmanski edits her images to remove the debris, the detritus that obstructs our view, our vision of clarity, of truth. Mapping a new terrain, she shows us what is essential to preserve and conserve at this point in time.
Linda King suspends time preserving a moment, a memory. In this suite of oil paintings we can appreciate not only the reflection on a place that acts to mark a memory, perhaps a loss, but also the preservation of the original starting point of the painting in its simplicity and purity of color in different parts of the paintings.
Nancy Macko conserves the purity and simplicity of abstract thought in her print series, The First Ten Prime Numbers, Suite II and The Dark Matter Series, 1-3. Constructing the units as hive clusters, these works examine the vastness of space and the relevance of the mark or moment in their representation of fundamental mathematical concepts.
Nancy Macko
Curator
February, 2009
