Megan Canning "Inside There is Everything"
Pink Elephant Projects
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The exhibition will feature a series of hand-embroidered canvases depicting the five senses, a group of cut + sewn drawings that merge anatomical diagrams with phrases from contemporary poetry, canvases that combine refined hand-embroidery with sculptural appendages, and related drawings.
In Maggie Wright’s essay for the exhibition catalogue, she writes:
Concerned with the ways in which our unseen, internal bodies determine the poetry of our senses, Megan Canning exposes the mechanics behind our sensations, but gilds the evidence with personal narrative…Excerpts of poetry stand in for scientific explanation, pointing to crevices; the words are murmurs of sensuality among the detritus of cells...In this way, she buffers the clinical nature of her imagery with the promised warmth of memory. Her work offers the universality of our internal experience with the intimacy of our individual souls.
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Schedule
from May 16, 2008 to June 21, 2008
Opening Reception: May 16, 7-9 pm.