Ellen Driscoll "FastForwardFossil, Part I"
Frederieke Taylor Gallery
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Frederieke Taylor gallery announces an exhibition of new work by Ellen Driscoll entitled FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 1, the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. The exhibition will feature sculpture, drawings, and a glass piece by Ellen Driscoll which reflect her continued investigation of the impact of natural-resource harvesting and consumption on our landscape and its architecture.
In her drawings, Ellen Driscoll imagines an apocalyptical future where a refugee camp is pitched atop a water tower and a North Sea oil rig shares the horizon with wildfires and garbage heaps. In her vision of a future world, a McMansion development becomes a slum, while an encampment receives the water of a melting glacier and a power plant spills beyond its boundaries to infiltrate a shopping mall. Using ink on paper, the worlds in the drawings are drained of color, while being filled with the spillage of a chaotic, dystopic future. Using the same language as her drawings, the gallery will present a new painting on architectural glass. Fabricated by Franz Mayer in Munich, Germany, the piece is an architectural iteration of her drawings.
The sculptural landscape, constructed out of translucent, plastic milk and water bottles, presents a similar, chaotic future. These bottles that contained pure milk and water that once quenched our thirst now end up contaminating and destroying our landscape. The piece combines views of the Niger Delta and the Port Harcourt oil refinery in Nigeria with the tar sands of Alberta, Canada and other contaminated sites.
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Schedule
from April 10, 2009 to May 16, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-04-16 from 18:00 to 20:00