Plus Gallery artists Melissa Furness and Patti Hallock are both teaching in Italy this summer in conjunction with UCD, and while they are there they'll also be exhibiting some of their fabulous works for the Italian market. Their exhibition "Fragments: West-World" opens this Thursday July 15th at the Contemporary Art Gallery at the Santa Reparata International School of Art, with a reception at 7:30pm.
The statement for the exhibition is as follows:
"Swimmers navigate the surreal landscapes created by artist Melissa Furness. Fragments of ancient ruins are woven in with familiar images from contemporary culture asking us to consider our own identity in time and our place in a present that co-exists with relics from the past. Artist Patti Hallock's photographs of ruined and decaying landscapes of rural America, leave us to ponder the illusion of the utopian search for the "great west'. These structures and familiar non-places are slowly degrading and being claimed by the landscape. As spectators we are drawn into these non-places and asked to contemplate our connection to the earth. As participants of history we are both co-existing with the past and creating the ruins of the future."
The statement for the exhibition is as follows:
"Swimmers navigate the surreal landscapes created by artist Melissa Furness. Fragments of ancient ruins are woven in with familiar images from contemporary culture asking us to consider our own identity in time and our place in a present that co-exists with relics from the past. Artist Patti Hallock's photographs of ruined and decaying landscapes of rural America, leave us to ponder the illusion of the utopian search for the "great west'. These structures and familiar non-places are slowly degrading and being claimed by the landscape. As spectators we are drawn into these non-places and asked to contemplate our connection to the earth. As participants of history we are both co-existing with the past and creating the ruins of the future."
The exhibition will remain on view through August 4th, for more info contact rolsen@santareparata.org
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