J. Parker Valentine Exhibition
Lisa Cooley Fine Art
This event has ended.
Valentine has cultivated a diverse practice focused on drawing, but which also includes film, photography, painting, sculpture, and texts. The works begin as documentations or abstractions of personal experience which are then filtered through the artist's interests in mythology, the ekphrasic relationships between media, architecture as psychological space, and man's physical, gravitational connection to the earth.
Dustsceawung, an Old English word for "the contemplation of dust" or the acknowledgement that all which comes from the dust will return to dust, is an apt metaphor for this exhibition. Many of the works feel elegiac, honoring an event or person not seen, while others imply the potential for new actions or elements. Some images depict every day scenarios that are simultaneously archetypical. The tension between these opposing forces — creation and destruction, the immediate and the eternal � imbues the exhibition with a palpable sense of life force.
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Schedule
from May 18, 2008 to June 22, 2008
Opening Reception: May 18, 6-8 pm.