Cumulus

Cumulus

Dates: March 15 to April 19, 2008

Artist: Marcy Adzich

Opening: Friday, March 14, at 8:00 p.m.

Artist’s talk: Saturday, March 15, at 2:00 p.m.

Marcy Adzich investigated the social and cultural origins of museum displays, historical still life painting, and the alteration of landscapes, both rural and urban. Her sculptural works are rooted in process and material inquiry. She pulled simple objects such as Mylar balloons, artificial flora, and wrapping paper from their original contexts and transformed them into objects that invite new and unexpected interpretive play, exciting the narrative hormone. Adzich describes her work as a sort of alchemy: “Balloons become clouds and wall mounted trophies, while wire brushes and fake flowers transform into lush ornamentation and distance mountain ranges, silver decorative hardware become fences, ladders and other architectural structures. Through sculpture and painting, Cumulus is the interplay between scene and situation, still life and landscape, abstraction and representation, revealing unexpected configurations of form and space.”