Ellen Letcher “Gaslight”

Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden

poster for Ellen Letcher “Gaslight”

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In Ellen Letcher’s solo exhibition, Gaslight, a chair is a painting not to be rested on. A canvas is half wrapped in plastic like a survivor of an environmental catastrophe. A beheaded, now mute saint has been captured. At Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden Pocket Utopia, Letcher is pleased to announce that we must fend for ourselves.

The exhibition title, Gaslight, comes from the American 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gas Light, where a murderer convinces his new wife that she is a crazy kleptomaniac who imagines things that are not there, like dimming gaslights. The plan almost works, but the wife’s sanity is quickly restored when an inspector from Scotland Yard confirms that the lights are indeed flickering.

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Schedule

from August 20, 2014 to October 11, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-08-20 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Ellen Letcher

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