Beth Galston "Luminous Garden (Origins)"
CYNTHIA-REEVES
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Beth Galston, a Boston-based conceptual artist, opens a large-scale installation at Reeves Contemporary on Tuesday, March 25th with an opening artist’s reception on Saturday, March 22nd between 6-8 p.m. The show continues through April 19th, 2008.
“Luminous Garden (Origins)” is a new large-scale, walk-through installation created specifically for Reeves Contemporary. Galston created this free-flowing improvisational installation by using a simple repertoire of material--colored LEDs, cast resin seedpods, and tangles of electrical wire. Galston’s “garden” is a glowing environment of tall spidery plant-like forms inspired by nature and its processes. The installation creates a sculptural world entirely comprised of man-made, industrial materials.
The installation is a three-dimensional drawing in space with a network of wire lines of different weights and gestures, clusters of glowing colored forms, shadows, air, and space. Some of the flora hangs vertically like seaweed; others are loosely tethered to the ground, suggesting the possibility of movement. Additional forms, reminiscent of nests or webs, float freely in the air. This garden is the fifth in the series of “Luminous Garden” environments. While the previous gardens were set in the ground and “planted,” suggesting a cultivated place, this garden is a wilder community of plants breaking loose from the ground and undergoing some kind of metamorphosis.
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from March 22, 2008 to April 19, 2008
Opening Reception: March 22, 6-8pm