Exhibitions for July, 2007
SERVANDO GARCIA
"Everything is going to be OK"
Exhibition
Thursday, July 5 - Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Reception
Thursday, July 5, 2007; 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Saturday, 11-5:30 p.m.
Open until 8:00 p.m. on first Thursday of the month
This exhibition explores the emotions triggered
by domestic spaces - the bedroom, the sink, the living room wall
- as a metaphor for the anxiety present in his relations to the
process of painting. Garcia's psychological process is materialized
in richly-painted interior scenes, within which formal tensions
in color and compositional stability flood the canvas space. The
viewer is absorbed into a private world in which vision serves as
one's emotional guide, the "primary tool for survival, and
a trigger for emotional cognition."
XUCHI
NAUNGANYAN-EGGLETON
“Wabi Sabi” (Impermanence/Permanence)
Exhibition
Thursday July 5, 2007 - Saturday July 28, 2007
Reception
Thursday, July 5, 2007; 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Saturday, 11-5:30 p.m.
Open until 8:00 p.m. on first Thursday of the month
Xuchi Naungayan Eggleton refers to her work as
“baroque minimalist,” a phrase which is both precise
and insufficient; while it captures the physical and conceptual
complexity of Xuchi’s sculptures, the phrase misses the all-important
influence of nature. Eggleton describes her work as looking like
“it’s pulled out of geological time,” a “manmade
geological phenomena.” Paradoxically, this very purity - the
purity of time and the forces of nature – is an methodically
crafted illusion. Though they mimic the forms and patterns of rock,
eroded by wind and water, or of shards of ice and stone, Eggleton’s
sculptures are in truth meticulously hand-crafted. While their form
and composition suggest stability and weight, they are surprisingly
light, delicate, and soft. They suggest centuries of harsh weather
and a context of wild exposure, but we know they are the youthful
output of a contemporary studio, not yet in existent during those
long centuries, but present in the seed of inspiration passed.
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