Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 29 April 2011

JANE BIRDSALL-LANDER: The Poetry of Objects
April 29th through June 11th
Opening Reception Friday, April 29th, 5-8 p.m.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10-5pm.

In her recent sculptural wall pieces artist Jane Birdsall-Lander reconfigures found objects and then binds them together with pigment stained waxed linen thread to build a group of primal alphabet forms. Made from cast offs such as salvage wooden canes these pieces have the prehensile tension of primitive objects while at the same time they are elegant and seamlessly crafted. Conceptually the sculptures are inspired by the artist’s interest in the evolution of pictographs and ideographs into the modern alphabet as well as her desire to incorporate recycled artifacts into the sculptures. Her object and signs each designed to correspond with a letter and to the physical symbols from which that letter was derived project a hands width from the wall cast shadows on the wall above and below. The waxed linen thread that circles parts of the forms binds the past with the present in a way that makes sense on both an intuitive and an aesthetic level.

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