Ruth Hardinger "Normal Faults"
CREON Gallery
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An exhibition of recent sculpture and drawings responding to the forces of life, and the flaws and faults of human intervention. "The constituent parts of each sculpture swell like flesh . . . with a tension between the earthly and the ideal." Stephen Westfall
The underground is alive. When subterranean rock formations are stressed by natural tensions and gravity's pull, cracks and breaks occur, creating normal faults. These faults are fluid passageways of activity and life forms.
In Normal Faults, Hardinger plays out a dialogue between nature and culture. Envoys, the sculpture, are messengers in concrete - which conjure up firmness and fact along with cardboard - which deteriorates and connotes discarding or recycling. Pathways, the drawings, are entanglements that venture into the unknown.
"My work responds to forces of life and the flaws and faults of human intervention," Hardinger says. "Filling a cardboard box with wet concrete that stresses it, turning powdery graphite and milk into a network of trails that don't connect - express unreasoned conflict and conditions that instigate change."
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Schedule
from March 28, 2012 to April 19, 2012
Poetry reading and artist discussion by Jonathan Goodman and Robert C. Morgan Wednesday April 4, 6:30 pm
Opening Reception on 2012-03-28 from 18:00 to 20:00