Join us in the Eric Fischl Gallery for the Opening of our two latest exhibitions: Language of Movement and THE PLACES WE CARRY. Refreshments will be provided, and artists will be in attendance.
Language of Movement features artworks by Guillermo Gutierrez. To find the signal within the noise is to cultivate a sensitivity to what is normally disregarded, to pull the background towards the foreground. Cast out materials, exhausted of all previous purpose, endure and transform. Each apparatus is assembled from found objects and set into motion. Amplified materials generate sound as they rub, grind, scrape, and strike one another. The sonic event unfolds gradually through anevolving temporality rather than an imposed composition. Understanding emerges through sustained attention. These sounds are raw, yet there is rhythm, texture, and a language of movement.
THE PLACES WE CARRY features artworks by Kathryn Maxwell. Maxwell's collages represent the space between what we see and what we remember, between the places before us and the places we carry within. She is interested in the permeable boundary where direct experience of our environment becomes embedded in the visions and narratives of memory. She draws from the spectrum of ecological phenomena for inspiration: the constant flux of currents through water, the vibrant sunsets of my home, the interplay between human activity and the environment. Kathryn's palette reflects the vibrancy of these hybrid environments and the freedom of remembered experience. Embedded within her work are indications that all places emerge from ongoing interactions between human activity and the environment; place is always already a hybrid assemblage. she foregoes horizon lines and singular viewpoints to simulate the immersiveness of being within an environment. Hand-printed, drawn, and painted collage elements allow for spontaneity that helps preserve the sense of vitality inherent in these spaces where ecological processes and embodied experience are continuously reshaped by memory. Through Maxwell's work, she invites viewers to recognize how deeply place shapes us and becomes a part of who we are. They help form our interior geography, becoming places we carry within.