NYAB Event - "Circuitous Routes" Exhibition

"Circuitous Routes" Exhibition

Bronx Art Space

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BronxArtSpace presents "Circuitous Routes" featuring the work of 15 artists. Through radically different routes, media and methodology these artists are exploring memory and traces of personal history as tied to and revealed in objects and place. The 15 artists converge in this exhibition from very different perspectives and backgrounds.

Jun-Cheng Liu's "Fragments of Memory" documents selected artifacts that carry stories of life (personal and collective) in the most tangible way, highlighting through trompe l'oeil the fact that the images are only shadows of reality. John Holmgren's photographic and mixed-media constructions explore "connections to and experiences of place, landscape, environment, time and memory," a direction that has its foundation in childhood family travels. Kevin Brady's work confronts the "dead matter of a metal scrap yard in its ceaseless, silent transformation from one form to another." In the work of Tyko Kihlstedt and Michael Clapper personal history and memory are tied to place and objects, physical locus of points in space. Scott Wright's cautionary tales and metaphors are an amalgam of memory, direct experience and daydreams.

Richard Kent's enigmatic photographs hint at narrative approximations kindling imagination. Carol Galligan works with Taoist "Great Void that knows no boundaries... thickening it turns into mountains and hills...vaporizing,... the visible 'Chi' or breath of nature." Similar is the sensibility of Claire Giblin's evocative sensuous atmospheric color interpreting a Zen, poem. Virginia Maksymowicz traces the visual trail of canephorae and caryatids, what she calls "sculptures of stone and women of flesh" through images collected from her travels in Italy and the words of Romanian poet, Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu. In contrast, Dorothy Thayne's spiritual quest exploits a direct lineage to traditional Christian iconography. Though grounded in abstraction, the sensibility of materials dominates the abstract forms of Bill Hutson and Tedd Pettibon. Architect Carol Hickey works with salvaged reconstructed 19th-century structure. This invitational exhibition presents the work of the teaching faculty of Franklin and Marshall College where Cunningham was formerly a faculty member.