September 19 – 27
Oscillate Wildly
(gallery hours 12 - 7 Wednesday through Sunday) Opening reception: Friday, September 18, 7 – 9
oscillate - verb (intransitive) = to swing back and forth with a steady uninterrupted rhythm
wildly - adverb = extreme manner
OSCILLATE WILDLY is an art show comprising artists that use elements of collage in their work. The artists in this group show are:
Elisa Solivan
Dorene Quinn
Yvonne Buchanan
Maya Brym
Karla Wozniak
Linnea Paskow
S.E. Nash
Lucy Kim
Angelina Gualdoni
Kristi Kent
Tom Brauer
The curators interpret collage as juxtaposition, overlay or a “throw away” in terms of ideas or media — a whimsical notion or a fleeting moment. The artists all use disparate images and materials. Fitting of a recession, none are ostentatious and most use cheap or found materials.
These artists acknowledge the absurdity of the times in their work but are also able to find joy. They discover meaning in the mundane through improvisation. There are elements of danger in the show. Some of the work conjures the fading American Dream and finds us between two worlds — the one that was and the one that is yet to be. An image could be the inside of a computer, or someone’s body, or even your mind. This randomness is made huge in order to communicate it. There are push-pull elements with color, texture and surface.
In this art we are brought to places of beauty through visual addition, subtraction and juxtaposition. We are made to perceive charged, invisible places.
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