Small matters in Marcy Adzich’s art

Program, P.2004

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Identifier: P.2004
Category: Visual Arts
Date: March 15 – April 19, 2008
Description: Visual artist Marcy Adzich is obsessed with miniatures. Her fragile and tiny works transform everyday objects, scenes and situations into psychologically charged landscapes. An installation of Adzich’s new series Cumulus opens on March 14 and continues until April 19.
Marcy Adzich investigates 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 pulls simple objects such as Mylar balloons, artificial flora, and wrapping paper from their original contexts, transforming them to 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.”
On Saturday afternoon, March 15 at 2:00pm Marcy Adzich will present an artist’s talk. In addition to discussing Cumulus, Marcy will recount her recent adventures in North Bay, Ontario as part of Ice Follies, a special project that invited artists to reimagine the architecture of ice-fishing shacks.