January 4th
– 26th, 2014 | Reception: Saturday, January 4th, 2014, 2-5PM
loop Gallery is
pleased to announce new exhibitions by loop members Sheryl
Dudley, entitled Between Here and There; and Mary Catherine
Newcomb, entitled the Woods.
A new mixed media installation by Dudley
documents unsettling moments in the space between places. Her photographs and
works on paper catalogue a personal trove of mementos, talismans, and ancestral
objects. Wrapping and unwrapping countless objects during a recent move
inspired this series of intimate mixed-media drawings. They came about in
a circuitous way beginning with a remembered motif from the artist's family
history. The objects depicted trace her lineage and its fracture - but most of
all, the erosion of memory and material things over time.
Dudley’s paintings and photographs have been shown in numerous solo and
group exhibitions in the United States and Canada. Her work can be found in
many private collections on both sides of the border.
In
the Woods, Newcomb presents a small series of sculptures as
platforms for presenting and contemplating natural material that she harvested
in the wild and/or cultivated. the Woods refers to a small plot of land
that has been in her family for several generations - a repository of memory and crucible for
mythologies. A return to the woods (and the lake) in the summer of 2013
inspired this work that contemplates layers of personal meaning apprehended in
details of a familiar landscape and examines a relationship
between art and nature.
Newcomb’s work has been
widely exhibited both here and abroad and has garnered numerous grants and
awards. She currently resides in Kitchener, Ontario and teaches in the Visual
and Creative Arts program at Sheridan College.
Images: (left) Sheryl
Dudley, Untitled, mixed-media drawing, 4"x4", 2013.
(right) Mary Catherine Newcomb, 28,
plaster, harvested
mushrooms, 50 x 55 x 60 cm, 2013
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