Harwood

July 2 - July 29, 2010

Main Gallery:

Barb Hinnenkamp, "Saints of Today"

An exploration of today’s politics around immigration, this show depicts the resigned patience of the immigrants who perform basic tasks for the American public. They most often are invisible and at risk of unfair treatment in a system that has yet to create a viable process in which they can legally exist here. Their direct kindness and simplicity impressed Barbara, as if they knew how to nurture her with compassion and a self-image that was elegant, dignified and wise. This show represents a desire to make this memory manifest.

Front Gallery:

Lea Anderson, "Millipods. An Installation"

In this mixed-media, digitally-based exhibition, one thousand variations of a single, fertile “pod” spread over the walls, expressing the potential in (and the limitations of) the search for infinity. Anderson’s art is like a visual seed planted in the observer’s eye, taking root in his/her mind. This generative process is guided by what she considers to be a living, formal language that is given substance by the anamorphic forms she creates. The pieces exhibit organic or biological characteristics, and can be compared to marine life, microbes, or fungi. The colorful, pod-like forms expand and pulse with life, their bodies seeming to mutate... and spread. 

Upstairs South Gallery:

Ivan Boyd, "Metamorphosis"

Boyd’s paintings are symbolic of relationships, connectedness, alienation, opposition, power and annihilation. He explores the visual language of expressionism, symbolism, surrealism and cubism to represent dream imagery. His paintings interplay these colliding styles with a visual language that contains intensely personal, private, obscure and ambiguous references.

Upstairs North Gallery

Cameron Blaisdell, "Regeneration"

Inspired by the cyclic rhythms of nature, Cameron transforms clay into rhythmic patterns of bones, animals, flowers, and plants. She sculpts objects from nature and combines them in a surrealistic assemblage, creating an iconic representation of something greater in order to tell a story with hidden meaning. Woven from the mysterious tale of life, death, and rebirth, each of her sculptures portray the beauty in what is invisible, unknown, and sometimes feared.