"Lost & Found" Exhibition

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OPENING RECEPTION: Sat. April 7th 6-9PM

CLOSING RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK: Sat. May 5th 4-6PM
Arthur Comings, Brandy Eiger, Mirto Golino, Dolores Gray, & John Whitmarsh

Assemblage derives much of it connection to an audience through nostalgia and familiarity.  By creating a new reality for discarded objects based on their own aesthetic and often sympathetic (if not empathetic) responses, each artist in this exhibition uses this mode of expression to speak to our general curiosities around connecting 'humanity' to inanimate objects.  -  Curated by Matt McKinley

Featured Artists:  Andrew Knipe, Arthur Comings, Brandy Eiger, Dianne Hoffman, Dolores Gray, John Whitmarsh, Kat Flyn, Kevin Grady, Leigh Ellison, Linda Raynsford, Liz Mamorsky, Mirto Golino, and Robt Burg

“My interest in assemblage and found object works lies in both the hidden and reconstituted narratives of the materials.  I think about who owned or used the objects when they were new and what was the sequence of events that caused them to be discarded.  While the original function of most reclaimed objects is innocuous (watches, tools, road signs, bottle caps, books, dolls), when they are transformed into an object to be contemplated we layer suppositions and opinion upon them, imbuing them with feeling.”   Curator:  Matt McKinley, McKinley Art Solutions

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