Susan Benarcik installed thousands of toothpicks on the walls of the CFEVA Gallery @ 15th & Locust Streets as part of Sculpting Nature, a three person show of CFEVA Career Development Program Fellows . Benarcik’s wooden installation wraps around a corner paired with hanging tear-drop shaped sculptures made from white wire hangers, some of which were rusted from hanging in a private garden (hmm…do the initials E.T. come to mind?).
Susan Benarcik’s wire sculptures are light and airy yet angsty and filled with emotion casting shadows of doubt in the gallery’s alcove.
Susan Benarcik @ Sculpting Nature.
R. Noel Shaak‘s pen, ink & marker drawings are goth & Goethe mash-ups each telling an entire movies worth of narrative like some steam-punk Gorey for 2010.
John Woodin talked about how his vineyard photos are actually Long Island and not some exotic European country. The large scale photographs have a strange geometry, formal compositions drawn from informal resources like walking through a warm East Coast forest in summer. DoN knew the photos were Woodin before he knew they were Woodin, that’s style.
The cohesive show is an amalgam of styles each somehow tuned into the concept of nature changed by the gaze of people, Benarcik’s sculptures energize the room, Shaak’s drawings whisper weird secrets and Woodin’s photos traverse space and time.
John Woodin @ Sculpting Nature in the Center for Emerging Visual Artists Gallery through 9/2/2010.