April Issue 2001
Artworks Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, Hosts Exhibit by Anne Kesler Shields
Artworks Gallery
in Winston-Salem, NC, is presenting a one-person exhibit by Anne
Kesler Shields with a large-scale photocopy installation entitled
In the Garden, along with paper collages, on view through
Apr. 21.
Adam and Eve find their modern-day counterparts in In the Garden. Applying photocopies directly to a wall of the gallery, Shields juxtaposes centuries-old depictions of the Temptation with photography from contemporary fashion magazines. Measuring 32 feet long and 9 feet high, the installation has the visual impact of a billboard. The gestures of Eve in a tenth-century Spanish fresco are echoed in a life-sized photograph of pop singer Jennifer Lopez. A rendering of Adam and Eve from a medieval Spanish manuscript mixes with trendy advertisements for Versace Jeans, Dolce & Gabana and DKNY. Surrounding all these figures is a ruined forest overgrown with vines. "The garden in this work has been corrupted," Shield says. "The connection between Adam and Eve's fall and our contemporary culture is obvious, I think. I have simply tried to find visual connections between the two."
Shield's exhibition also includes smaller paper collages on the same theme as the larger work.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings or call the gallery at 336/723-5890.
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