Existence of Life - Evolution Part II
Eagle Hill Cultural Center Exhibition
By: David Wilson - 02/23/2010
My Jumping Ship by Agnes Wyant.
My Jumping Ship by Agnes Wyant.
Up from the Primordial Ooze by Carrie Crane.
Cooper Farm by Carrie Crane.
The Eagle Hill Cultural Center in Hardwick, MA is celebrating the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth using the umbrella title, "Evolution." The current exhibition continue to April 30th, with an opening reception from 2-4pm on Sunday, Feb 28th, featuring the works of surrealist, Carrie Crane, photographer Barbara Gates, and life-scapist, Agnes Wyant.
In Joni Mitchell's song, Both Sides Now, she concludes as have many of us that it is often "life's illusions we recall." A new exhibit, Existence of Life, has opened at the Eagle Hill Cultural Center in Hardwick and bears clear witness to the diversity of interpretations possible of both the word, "life" and to life itself. Crane, Gates, and Wyant present what might be interpreted as three aspects of evolution, organic, chemical and psychological.
Crane's intimate view of the interrelationship between elements in the landscape motivates her to examine such, using acrylics and pencil sketches, creating with exaggerated clarity a picture of how "the shapes and colors interact" and "how the elements might depend on one another for their sustenance and survival." She speaks in more detail about her work and you may view more examples at http://www.carriecrane.com/
Carrie will also be the guest artist at Pat Bock's April 14th Art Tea at the Eagle Hill Cultural Center.
Gates, a science specialist at the Lee Academy Pilot School in Dorchester, uses her lens to expose the "accidental paintings and sculptures made by use, weather and timeĀ " seeing them as "evidence of entropy" imprinted on the infrastructure of our culture. For samples of her work.
Wyant, in examining herself enlightens all of us with her deeply personal and universally applicable examinations of psychological process, choice and changes in life directions. She titles that process and its acrylic productions, "My Jumping Ship, "and sees it as something "we all do at various stages of our lives"
The reception on Sunday, February 28, 2-4 p.m is free and open to the public. Tickets for the performance of Cirque le Masque which follows the reception may be purchased if and while available either online or at the box office.
Call 413-477-6746 or visit: http://www.centerateaglehill.org