New Light and Rust considers rivers, identity, place, stasis and flow. It exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as a multi-painting installation with four stand-alone paintings.
The installation River Island appropriates an art museum doorway, likening it to a river island where diverse forms gather at its shore, perceptually altering its structure and defining its character for a time. I clustered multiple, small, plein air and abstract paintings around a gallery doorway to echo the paintings’ river and driftpile imagery. I imagined the whole as one of becoming, much in the way that a studio feels active, open, and intimate in disclosing its flow. River Island also reflects the uneven process of fitting into a new home, of re-placement.
The four individual paintings, Owl, Siblings, Coolers, and Divers use the river as stage for allegories of competition, maturation, folly, and intrigue.
The installation River Island appropriates an art museum doorway, likening it to a river island where diverse forms gather at its shore, perceptually altering its structure and defining its character for a time. I clustered multiple, small, plein air and abstract paintings around a gallery doorway to echo the paintings’ river and driftpile imagery. I imagined the whole as one of becoming, much in the way that a studio feels active, open, and intimate in disclosing its flow. River Island also reflects the uneven process of fitting into a new home, of re-placement.
The four individual paintings, Owl, Siblings, Coolers, and Divers use the river as stage for allegories of competition, maturation, folly, and intrigue.
