Barbara Roux "Birds Grow on Trees"
A.I.R. Gallery
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In Barbara Roux's installation of sculpture, photographs and narrative text, Birds Grow on Trees, Barbara Roux continues her engagement with wild habitat niches on the verge of suburban New York. An active conservationist and combinedmedia artist, Roux utilizes her experiences working daily in wild areas to create works that are layered with meaning. This exhibition focuses on a small forested, wetland cove on the north shore of Long Island. Themes of natural history and preservation are subtly woven through this exhibition of works that create a time, place, evidence of an event and emotional connection. The site is brought into the gallery space through sculptures consisting of altered but not disguised elements from the forest. A floor work, “Fallen Moon”, is composed of interconnected fallen branches, which were caught amid tree limbs where they slowly dried, losing their bark. These bleached branches create a centerpiece for the exhibition. Other smaller elements from the forest trees tell a story of survival and color photographs capturing small “events” in the landscape. Ms. Roux’s poem, “From Above”, is the artist’s personal narrative on the sudden flight of small birds transiting the cove.
A small artist’s book, Birds Grow on Trees, accompanies the exhibition. Roux has had her photographs featured as the cover of Orion Magazine, Fourth River Journal and Annals of Earth. She has had solo exhibitions at the A.I.R. Gallery, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Islip Art Museum, Discovery Museum and Queens College Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, Art New England, The New York Times, Newsday, Volume Magazine and Arts Magazine. She has also been featured on NBC television.
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Schedule
from October 06, 2010 to October 31, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-10-07 from 18:00 to 20:00