Lynn Koble "Capacity"
Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
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Capacity features a large-scale sculpture that fills the gallery space, as well as a series of small-scale sculptures. The works in the exhibition draw connections between the elements of nature and the elements of science and mathematics, which have a long-standing attachment to formulas, systems, and solutions. Together they point to the complex, interconnected relationship between people and nature.
The exhibition's main work, Capacity, consists of an upright, eight-foot diameter, felt-covered circle, a collection of liquid-filled laboratory flasks, and the elliptical shadows cast by both. With a reductive clarity in form and materials, the sculpture lives up to its name by referencing two related concepts: physical volume and human capability. Rather than solid, the circle is an open ring whose interior holds only a water-line sliver of mirror. The translucent glass boiling flasks of a bygone method hold varying levels of distilled water hued by different concentrations of blue ink. The materials, scale, and placement of the work within the gallery create formal and conceptual tensions between absence and presence, fragility and strength, certainty and doubt.
Also on exhibit is a series of whimsical, small-scale sculptures, entitled Bellows and Manifold that follow the same theme. Rather than water, here the works address the element of air. Also made from richly tactile felt and glass lab ware, these forms take on an anthropomorphic quality, through posture and personality that includes moments of levity to counteract the brittle glass.
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from October 28, 2009 to December 19, 2009