On
October 13th, 2012, 323East will welcome Bethany Shorb as she showcases her
latest work:
Like many a grad school student before and since, Shorb politely followed the
advice of her professors and dutifully eschewed using certain materials deemed
"unsuitable" for sculptural pieces. With all due respect to academia, we wish
those instructors had been less prohibitive. It took ten years for the talented
Shorb to abandon those restrictions - and that means a decade's worth of work
that was never added to her impressive portfolio.
We hope, however, that Palimpsest, her forthcoming solo exhibit at 323East
will modestly amend that regrettable gap. A more expansive project than Crash
(her first one-woman show at 323), this array of three-dimensional constructions
eloquently express and illustrate the artist's enthusiastic re-imagining of a
modern world that is belatedly and reluctantly coming to terms with its own
entropy.
Her installations and fixed structures are not mere fragments of detritus
conjured into amusements or new shapes. They hint at consequences far more
serious than we are prepared to accept. Consequences, we hasten to add, that are
emphasized to the viewer by Shorb's intriguing use of skin samples she preserved
with a DIY tanning process. The collective result is a visceral dream.
Palimpsest will be showing from
October 13 - November 14
Opening
Reception:
October 13 from 6-11 pm
The
show is free and open to the public.
323East Gallery
323 E. 4th
St
Royal Oak, MI 48067
248-246-9544 /
http://323east.com
