Tara Fracalossi, associate professor and director of The Teaching Gallery and Professor Thomas Lail, both members of the Department of Fine Arts, Theatre Arts and Digital Media currently have an exhibition, “The World Comes To Us,” at One Mile Gallery in Kingston.
The exhibition includes photographic works by Fracalossi and silkscreen paintings, sculptures and drawings by Lail and remains on view through Saturday, Sept. 29. Gallery hours and more information are avaialable at http://onemilegallery.com/.
The exhibition title phrase, “The World Comes To Us,” is from Thomas Kellein’s 1997 essay “Between CinemaScope and Monument: Longo’s 366 Magellan Drawings,” and describes the onrush of images we experience in contemporary life and that are contained in Robert Longo’s sprawling Magellan series of that same year.
Fracalossi’s and Lail’s bodies of work mine related worlds of images that flow toward and by us, delivering the past, present and future dreams in an unending current. Lail’s works examine the historical and reproduced images of idealism and the ferment that leads to such ideas. Fracalossi’s photographs of the world around here are conditioned by a catalogue of descriptive categories that both arise from and generate the images of her ongoing “Archive.” Respectively, Fracalossi and Lail pose their images as stills plucked from the endlessly arriving stream, reposts from regenerated/degenerated histories, classified types and recombinative fragments that might report on the world as it comes to all of us.
Archive (2 from grass-storm king), 2017, Handcut archival
inkjet prints and graphite on dibond, 10 x 18″ © Tara Fracalossi
Published: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:59:25 +0000 by d.gardner