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October Issue 2001

University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, Features Installation by Martha Saunders

The McMaster Gallery in the Department of Art, at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, will feature an exhibition entitled, Mind Skin II, by Martha Saunders. The exhibition will be on view from Oct. 22 through Nov. 22.

Saunders will be exhibiting an installation as culmination of her 2000-2001 SECAC Fellowship. Mind Skin II is a large wax wall consisting of 240 one foot cells of beeswax holding objects, images and materials. The installation is a fusing of materials, notations, images, that form a metaphor of the mind as a holder and organizer of information.

Saunders refers to her work as dimensional holders. One-by-one foot beeswax cells encase flashes of memory: photographs, drawings, parts of maps and pages from a dictionary. The cells wrap around the room the way the mind wraps around a thought, with all the accompanying associations floating to the surface. The memory skin consists of 240 parts hung together in four continuous rows forming a sixty feet-by four feet-by five inches wall relief. The encaustic assemblages echo the grids of New York artist, Eva Hess and her focus on materials and process. Saunders, a native Virginian, considers the installation, a map "both of the making of the objects and the results of digesting experiences."

Saunders is the winner of the 2000 SECAC Artist Fellowship, which supported the completion of Mind Skin II. The installation will be shown in the McMaster Gallery, USC. The USC Art Department is this year's host of SECAC.

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call Mana Hewitt, Gallery Director, at 803/777-7480.

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