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Upcoming Show • September 6-29, 2018
I keep finding myself in the place I am.
Rebecca Muller
OPENING / Amherst Arts Night Plus: Thursday, September 6, 5-8 pm
ART FORUM / All Welcome: Thursday, September 20, 7:30 pm
Visual artist Rosalyn Driscoll will talk about Rebecca Muller's work and
lead a discussion based on Driscoll's concepts as they relate to Muller’s exhibition.
Free and open to the public,
the Art Forum is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council,
a local agency, supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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Upcoming Show • September 6-29, 2018
I keep finding myself in the place I am.
Rebecca Muller
OPENING / Amherst Arts Night Plus: Thursday, September 6, 5-8 pm
ART FORUM / All Welcome: Thursday, September 20, 7:30 pm
Visual artist Rosalyn Driscoll will talk about Rebecca Muller's work and
lead a discussion based on Driscoll's concepts as they relate to Muller’s exhibition.
Free and open to the public,
the Art Forum is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council,
a local agency, supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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The Crushing Weight of Tenderness
photograph by Rebecca Muller |
I keep finding myself where I am.
photograph by Rebecca Muller |
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• Working in mixed media across two and three dimensions, Rebecca Muller brings photographs suspended mid-air together with an array of found and reclaimed materials. Stone, discarded foundry glass, steel rod and rebar from demolished infrastructures, metal grid/mesh, and miscellaneous hanging/ installation material all find their way into her series of installations, I keep finding myself in the place I am. Muller enhances the photographic images using pastel, oil stick and small pieces of matter, and then “spatially collages” them in configurations specific to the shape and space of the Gallery A3. The largest span nine by thirteen by four feet.
• Muller notes that most of the material is local, found on walks at Fitzgerald Lake, the streets of Florence, the Mill River, and Amethyst Brook; or while driving along the road, retrieving metal piping or rebar from bridge or waterline replacement projects, and things that people abandon at the side of their property. “I am pulled toward things that have had a ‘previous life, or function’, she says. For over 30 years, her studio practice has involved re-contextualizing discarded debris in constructions and assemblages. |
• As the artist explains: “I’m deeply interested in the reality that everything changes, and permanency is an illusion. Consequently, the primary focus of my work is embodying the sense of the ephemeral. The pieces (often eroded manufactured material) are located at the intersection of organic and geometric form …. The work speaks of presence and absence, of how our perception of an experience, a memory, an object or time, all shift – based on where we stand – our point of view.”
________________________________________________________ GALLERY A3 / AMHERST ART ALLIANCE 28 Amity Street 1D, Amherst, MA 01002 in the Amherst Cinema Complex open Thursday-Sunday 1-7 pm 413 256 4250 gallerya3@gmail.com |