"Uprooted" Group Drawing Show
Causey Contemporary
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Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art presents "Uprooted: Group Drawing Show," an exhibition addressing the current cultural climate through issues such as technology's response to nature and the repercussions of unconscious human action.
Sasha Blanton's battleships situated nowhere symbolize the future of North American culture with regards to our global position. As stated by the artist, "we are rusting out, left to crumble – we are sinking." Whereas Kevin Bourgeois's surrealistic pop inspired graphite drawings address the human conditions of truth, beauty and love in our consumer driven society. Avygal Hertz's stylized drawings based on female genitalia are a contemporary take on feminism. In "Covered" the sinuous vaginal lines evoke the tendrils of arboreal landscapes, buried beneath the soil - she uncovers their primal origins as fertility emblems. In addition, Melissa Murray's drawings of animals in incongruous settings represent the detachment humans have from our primal origins. In her own words, "these creatures represent purity, and personify my dreams, fears for our collective future." For Eric Johnston ghost stories mingle with memories of the Texas marshland where he grew up and morph themselves into visionary designs. In "A People's Power Plant" Johnston transforms an archetypal Baltimore dwelling and attaches to it multiple solar panels creating an imaginary structure and the possibilities of hybridization. Joseph Smolinksi's graphite drawings examine the interaction between one of the oldest living organisms on earth and its current nemesis cellular towers. They are reminders of the irreverence commercial culture had for their importance in the life process of death and renewal. Lastly, Homer Yost's triptych drawings in graphite and conte address issues of homelessness in our country - the very uprooting of a person leaving them adrift.
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Schedule
from July 10, 2009 to August 24, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-07-10 from 18:00 to 21:00