Carrie Marill "Visual Aides"
Jen Bekman Gallery
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Marill finds inspiration in salvaged "visual aides," originally used in classrooms of the 1950s, which she reproduced and repurposed with gouache and modern influence. Marill’s edits and additions update the 60- year-old teaching tools' focus on farming and industry, highlighting technological advances and the consequential commercial and environmental issues. The resulting works are an often-humorous guessing game; the viewer is challenged to find contemporary intrusions in the landscapes. Once discovered, Marill's inclusions cleverly underscore the ways that we react as a society to establish a moral compass as things change. The clashes between past, present and future models for living reveal and question the nature of progress. Of Marill’s work Allison Arieff writes, "What at first seems a bucolic glimpse into agrarian idyll reveals itself to be a mind-boggling mash-up: equal parts pre-industrial arcadia and post-apocalyptic terrain... the essence of Marill’s message: we remain deliberately oblivious in order to survive. But for how much longer will that strategy work?"
[Image: Carrie Marill "Hot Water" (2009) pigment print and gouache on paper 22 x 30 in.]
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from March 27, 2010 to May 08, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-03-26 from 18:00 to 20:00