VOLTA NY: SHEILA GALLAGHER
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IMAGE: Sheila Gallagher, VOLTA NY, 2012. Photo: Carly Gaebe |
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On View: March 8 — March 11, 2012 |
Thursday, March 8th - Sunday, March 11th, 2012 7 W 34th Street New York, NY
A hybrid practitioner known for exhibitions of disparate materials, laborious inventive processes, and strong conceptual bookends, Sheila Gallagher's work displays rigor and delight in material juxtapositions and manipulations. Her latest series of plastic paintings are made with hundreds of melted plastic objects from Gallagher’s life In this series, Gallagher draws upon garden imagery associated with different faith traditions including Buddhism, Islam and Christianity, to create painterly mash-ups of the sacred and the profane.
Acting like time capsules, the plastic paintings are, in a sense, material biographies of Gallagher's life, as well as encapsulation of objects from this particular moment in our culture, endowing the works with a kind of pedestrian historicism. Grounded in the quotidian, yet framed by a wider view of historical events, Gallagher’s work asks us to explore how objects define us and to be awake to their shifting literal, symbolic, and poetic relationships.
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