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August Issue 2009
Flood Gallery
Fine Art Center in Asheville, NC, Features Group Show
The Flood Gallery Fine Art Center in Asheville, NC, will present the exhibit, Oh Kaos, featuring works by local and national artists, on view from Aug. 7 through Sept. 5, 2009.
The works address the range of possibilities between the ideas of "OK" and "chaos". The show will feature works that address these ideas in a literal, humorous, or more conceptual sense.
Included works range
from Beatriz Mendoza's detailed drawing of plant detritus breaking
down, overlaid with analytical geometric mapping, to Rebecca Keller's
painting of New Orleans in which the artist poured mud, allowing
the canvas to stain, shrink, and crack.
Zeph Fishlyn will create a kinetic sculpture, a "self-triggering
chaotic motion duet," by means of simple motors and found
objects.
New York artist Trevor Reese will install a drum piece spread
throughout the gallery, inviting visitors to take part in a drummer's
quintet.
Michael Folliet and the Wallpaper Group include a multimedia compilation
fed to two monitors, exploring manifestations of discontinuous
media and storytelling. The imagery and sound will on occasion
sync and then go out of sync.
Megan Levacy includes a small work on paper, an individual looking
into a dusty storm of watercolor, acrylic and India ink. Regarding
this work, Devour, the artist states, "Sometimes I
feel as though the world will devour me unless I devour it first."
Hillsboro, NC, artist Joseph Gargasz will include an enticing abstract mapping painting. Local artist Jason Sabbides, known for his paintings, will show line of sight, a surrealist drawing that is part human anatomical study, part bird, well, we'll leave the rest up to you.
Photographer Brent Fleury features a beautiful photograph featuring 4 young angsty and mischevious young men, not quite fitting into their prim and proper suits, pacing with a baseball bat in front of a scene, which leads you to wonder if they are responsible for.
Dean Lettenstrom includes a painting/collage that in itself a magical illusion, Multi-Tasking Conjurer (Suz). Susan Webb Tregay includes a light hearted, yet chaotic skewed vision of a residential setting, This Way as part of the Free-Range Children Series.
Zen Sutherland will include a selection of his Standing There series, in which the artist photographs a variety of locations, using his own feet as grounding in a chaotic world. Simon Goldberg has taken a hair from his girlfriend to create a 3-dimensional universe, literally crawling with life.
Leif Johnson includes a boldly colorful, and wildly layered painting. Well-known local poet Mark Prudowsky's works, Ars Poetica and For Gabrielle Calvocoressi will be featured on the wall, next to visual works of art.
More artists will include visual works.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Center at
828/254-2166 or visit (www.floodgallery.org).
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