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Email PageCurrent Relics
September 12, 2007- October 6, 2007
Reception: September 14, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Louise McCagg
A.I.R. Gallery
511 W 25th StA.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce CURRENT RELICS, a solo exhibition of new work by Louise McCagg. The exhibition will run from September 12 to October 6th with an opening reception on Friday September 14th from 6pm to 8pm.
In Current Relics, a two-part exhibition, Louise McCagg exhibits both wall hung and freestanding bronze sculptures in Gallery I. The new series titled, Vinyl Records, are small cast faces on a flat surface -- traditional relief. In the freestanding works, miniaturized faces are now held up on long, delicate yet organic lines of bronze, “ to move them in space, to give them scope,” says McCagg.
In Gallery II, cast paper headgear and plaster masks are displayed. The artist designed these works for the opera, “The Passion of Saint Thomas More,” by the Fisher Ensemble of Seattle, WA, and they are shown together with photos and video of the performance. Of this body of work the Seattle Weekly writes: “McCagg has designed provocative headpieces and hand-held masks to visually punctuate the performance…the overall theatrical effect is of a mask singing through the mouth of its heart.”
Through a process of shrinking the heads and faces of her models, McCagg manipulates the expressions and sizes, as she desires. Sometimes they are portraits, sometimes masks. As Marta Kovalovszky wrote of the artist’s work: “The portrait and the mask, two different sculptural genres informed with two different meanings are combined in much of McCagg’s work. The mask represents an intransmutable, permanent past and the portrait a gradually changing vibrant present.”
Louise McCagg was born in Hartford, Connecticut. The artist has exhibited widely both in the United States and internationally at venues which include, A.I.R. Gallery, The Sculpture Center (New York), Gallery 128 (New York), 2B Gallery (Budapest), Istvan Kiraly Muzeum (Budapest), Petofi Irodalmi Muzeum (Budapest) and Sejong Arts Festival (Seoul).
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