Leigh Tarentino Exhibition
Mixed Greens Gallery
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Mixed Greens presents an ambitious, site-specific window installation by Providence-based artist Leigh Tarentino. Known for her works on paper and digital prints, Tarentino translates the constructed landscape to dynamically layered fabric panels in our 26th Street windows.
For the last decade, Tarentino used watercolor and ink to render delicate, and often haunting, representations of our manmade landscape. Signs of technology and suburban sprawl such as power lines, highway signs, bridges, and overpasses became elegant compositions in Tarentino’s drawings, inspiring viewers to rethink roadside elements often considered to be eye sores. Since 2012, she focused her attention on suburbia itself. Graphic paintings of leafless trees wrapped in holiday lights highlight the eerie loneliness of the nocturnal, winter landscape. The materiality of the painted surface and the black and white palette capture the starkness of the moonlight on snow.
For The Night Hours, Tarentino will hang layers of fabric that have been painted, silkscreened, and digitally printed with monochrome images. The various opaque and transparent panels are inspired by her nighttime suburban exploration of landscape, single-family houses, and gardens, illuminated by artificial light. The curtain-like quality of the collaged fabric references both the site-specificity of the piece and the archetype of home. Rippling, slightly distorted, and moving ever so slightly, The Night Hours gives an uncanny perspective on suburban ideas of comfort, security, and privacy. Viewers are invited to peer up at windows within windows whose odd angles disrupt a clear vision of suburban well-being.
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Schedule
from March 20, 2014 to May 23, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-03-20 from 18:00 to 20:00