The Kent Place Gallery will present an art exhibition by Heidi Lau from Friday, October 18 – Friday, November 15, 2013. There will be a reception for the artist from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. on Friday, October 18.
Lau’s exhibition, titled “The Obscure Region,” features highly textured, ceramic abstract forms that evoke a strong emotional response. Her sculptures and works in various media bring to mind growing or disintegrating natural objects, but also architecture and ritual or religious objects.
“The driving force behind my work is to create an alternate world that comprises excerpted and fragmented narratives from personal and cultural memories, fables and natural history,” said Lau, “I am creating artifacts that take the form of various objects of remembrance – towers, funeral monuments and fossilized creatures.”
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Lau’s exhibition provides an opportunity for reflection on flux and the forms matter take on under the pressure of history and change, both human-caused and natural.
According to Kent Place Gallery Director Ken Weathersby, “Heidi’s pieces embody shapes and surfaces that seem simultaneously familiar and strange. It is work that seems to carry memories of many forces, even while it speaks on an abstract, and strongly physical level. This is the first solo show featuring ceramic work that I have scheduled at Kent Place in many years—and these pieces certainly alert me to (among other things) the power and interest clay can impose.”
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The artist is a BFA graduate from New York University’s fine arts program. Her work has most recently been included in group shows at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in New York, Manhattan Graphics Center, the show “Solid Pull” at TSA in New York City and at Vacancy NYC, among other exhibitions.
Kent Place Gallery is on the campus of Kent Place School, 42 Norwood Avenue, Summit, NJ. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more information call (908) 273-0900, or visit www.kentplace.org.
