Closing Reception at Star Store
When: Thursday,
September 12, 2019
6:00 PM
-
8:00 PM
Where: University Art Gallery
Cost: Free
Description: Last day of the exhibition by Elizabeth Keithline: (The Air) As It Moves
Location: University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford
Closing Reception: Thursday, AHA! Night, September 12, 6-8 pm
Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and Exhibition Curator, gallery@umassd.edu, closed on major holidays. Open until 9 pm during AHA! Nights (the second Thursday of every month)
(The Air) As It Moves is a site-specific installation by Elizabeth Keithline that uses hanging wire objects to create a play of light and shadows as it moves in the air. These abstract shapes have a memory of suspended skeletal, swaying wire beams and rafters that invite viewers to contemplate the invisible forces at work in our lives. We see these forces only because of their ancillary activity, never directly. Viewers are invited to move through the gallery and, by doing so, gently activate the installation.
Throughout the summer, the walls became populated by additional shadow drawings, which made it hard to distinguish the real shadows from their drawings, creating a disorienting and off balance feeling. We will remove the artworks from the gallery and celebrate the shadows remaining on the walls for the last hour of the exhibition.
Artist Elizabeth Keithline's work focuses on human self-extension and its effects on contemporary society. Born in Connecticut in 1961, Keithline has been a weaver since she was 14 years old. In 1996, after moving to Rhode Island, she invented a sculpture technique wherein wire is woven around an object and then burned out, leaving behind a wire memory. As the installations grew, she began to cut away and re-mend parts of the wire, rather than burning it out. The spines that the repairs incorporated became part of the work's content area. She has installed public art projects in Boston, Paxton, and Oxford, MA. A current project, "The Shadow Tree" is installed in the Art & Nature Center at the Peabody Essex Museum through March 2021.
Location: University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford
Closing Reception: Thursday, AHA! Night, September 12, 6-8 pm
Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and Exhibition Curator, gallery@umassd.edu, closed on major holidays. Open until 9 pm during AHA! Nights (the second Thursday of every month)
(The Air) As It Moves is a site-specific installation by Elizabeth Keithline that uses hanging wire objects to create a play of light and shadows as it moves in the air. These abstract shapes have a memory of suspended skeletal, swaying wire beams and rafters that invite viewers to contemplate the invisible forces at work in our lives. We see these forces only because of their ancillary activity, never directly. Viewers are invited to move through the gallery and, by doing so, gently activate the installation.
Throughout the summer, the walls became populated by additional shadow drawings, which made it hard to distinguish the real shadows from their drawings, creating a disorienting and off balance feeling. We will remove the artworks from the gallery and celebrate the shadows remaining on the walls for the last hour of the exhibition.
Artist Elizabeth Keithline's work focuses on human self-extension and its effects on contemporary society. Born in Connecticut in 1961, Keithline has been a weaver since she was 14 years old. In 1996, after moving to Rhode Island, she invented a sculpture technique wherein wire is woven around an object and then burned out, leaving behind a wire memory. As the installations grew, she began to cut away and re-mend parts of the wire, rather than burning it out. The spines that the repairs incorporated became part of the work's content area. She has installed public art projects in Boston, Paxton, and Oxford, MA. A current project, "The Shadow Tree" is installed in the Art & Nature Center at the Peabody Essex Museum through March 2021.
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