Harwood

May 6th - 26th, 2011

  "A Classification of Things, Part 2: A Drawing Installation," Chad Colby

The Harwood's front gallery space will be filled with works on paper united by lines drawn directly on the walls. The overall layout of the drawing installation will be based on images of polypeptide chains and enzyme structures. Each of the 100 or so "protein points" will be presented as a drawing, approximately 12" x 9". The selection of subject matter involves archiving, isolating, and forcing connections among an array of seemingly disparate elements - from magnetic resonance imagery to carbon characters - from Colby's past 10 years of studio practice.

Two Fort Lewis College art majors - Rachael Anderson and Ross White - are working as studio assitants to Colby, both in the creation and installation of this project.

"Fleeting Duality," Julia Lambright

The ten formative years I spent in a Russian orphanage gave me uncertain foundations of loneliness and isolation… Dark feelings of helplessness and being an outcast come to me in distorted flashes of my childhood, as I struggle to define who I am today. In my work, I am discovering naïve hopes of the past and human understanding seen from an adult perspective. I use my instinct and intuition as I investigate my past… lifting the heavy label that was applied, the label that generates anxiety and morally challenges the essence of my physical being. Unfathomable distortion engulfs my work, layering experience that darkens my hopeful vision. Fragmented memories remain just under the surface, appearing blurred and splintered as the distant facts about my genesis that I often failed to confront. Knowing I can never fully salvage an ambiguous past, I gently repossess the fading illumination of my childhood, giving the viewer a small taste of my deep uncertainty.