NEW SHOW

Holding Light
Ken Mazzu - Eve Leonard - Margaret O’Brien Nelson - Jonas Criscoe

Show Info

BODIES OF WATER

The waters split open, you enter and the world changes. Your eyes register a place altered by a fixed instability - streams of visual information that parallel and cross your senses. Color, light, and weight are changed. You float, swim, flutter and dive in what feels like another universe. Disconnected with your terrestrial self.

Selected Works

“a deep connection to place, memory, and transformation”

- Paul Coffey, Director, Glassell School of Art

Describing water and bodies immersed and emerging as moments in time.

“The situation is fluid” often means, “We have no idea what’s going on.” In these moments, activity is unfolding just beyond our descriptive abilities—a light, a ripple, a pull or the overwhelming push of a large wave. These experiences, perceived uniquely through our senses, may prompt a gasp, a shudder, or a scream of delight.

Artist's Statement

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