Exhibition runs: Friday August 14, 2009 - September 5, 2009
Exhibition hours: Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m. The gallery will be open by appointment only Friday and Saturday until September 9, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, August 14, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm
through the green fuse is the first solo exhibition by self-taught, Washington DC-based artist Laura Read. Working with a variety of media—wood, vintage photographs, fabric, found and natural objects—to create collages, assemblages and photo-montages, Read builds two- and three-dimensional compositions that are forms of renewal, using discarded fragments to illustrate the creative vitality and biological energy of life's untiring movement onward.
Read is drawn to the "essential beauty of the relationship that exists between man-made objects and the natural world, and the transformative nature of this relationship." Read's art is informed by the stillness of every day life, the vast swirling motion of time, dream and memory, and the beautiful world in between. Cycles of the natural world are interwoven with timelines of history—each having a stake in the collective human experience. To the artist the natural, cultural and personal heritage are inextricably linked, with all objects having a story to tell through the hands that created, touched and used them to their inevitable deterioration.
Read received a B.A. in history and literature at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA in 2001. She has also studied photography and printmaking.
August 14 - September 5, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, August 14, 7-9pm
through the green fuse is the first solo exhibition by self-taught, Washington DC-based artist Laura Read. Working with a variety of media—wood, vintage photographs, fabric, found and natural objects—to create collages, assemblages and photo-montages, Read builds two- and three-dimensional compositions that are forms of renewal, using discarded fragments to illustrate the creative vitality and biological energy of life's untiring movement onward.
