Join us Saturday, May 28, for an exciting opening reception for local artists Evan Holm and .
LIVE MUSIC 7-9pm
Holm and Newborg's independent projects have exciting resonance between themes and form. Together they alter the Local 123 walls with illusions to ancient cultural histories and future human traces.
Evan Holm debuts his newest piece, Impala, a twenty-foot drawing on plaster in 3 panels. Impala showcases Holm's ambitious art practice that believes in full commitment to unearthing his visual expression through experimental materials, in this case rusting metals shavings and watercolor pigments in a plaster ground. Many artists pursue this course of alternative methods, however Holm excels in marshalling his subtle and delicate image making with these unusual materials creating a satisfying and generative whole. Holm also presents smaller works, although distinct pieces, they will support and inform his conceptual motivations.
Holm gives insight into his work, "I generate glimpses of a future world where the boundary between man-made and nature-made has dissolved into a family of hybrid organisms and abandoned relics. My series of rust etchings fossilize in time the remains of unassuming and everyday human artifacts."
Carol Newborg produced a new body of work for Local 123, entitled Traces, which follows in her recent series of modular installations. Newborg, like Holm, innovates material combinations to suit her expressive formulations. These character/symbol pieces accumulate to make a expanding relational experience, engrossing the audience with her unbound large tableau. Newborg displays some of the charcoal studies that inspired these module pieces; they stand on their own for expressive communication, yet in this context they fascinate when compared with their 3-D counterparts.
Newborg in her own words, "Traces references markings and messages of ancient cultures. I was captivated when I first saw Anasazi petroglyphs; I had a sense of subliminal and incomplete communication. While knowing that the makers of these glyphs were similar to me in some essential human ways, I also knew they were essentially different and unknowable in others. This sense of perceiving a partially understood message reminds me of hearing fragments of conversation from another room or overhearing a nearby whisper."
Both Newborg and Holm draw on meditative experience, which lends a strong dialog between their works seen here together for the first time. This special pairing fulfills Local 123's aspiration to bring vibrant and unexpected work for viewers to experience.
-Emma Spertus
curator@local123cafe.com
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