Micaëla Gallery is pleased to announce "Winter Salon 2009," a multi-media exhibition that speaks to ever shifting states—psychologies, human bodies, societies and natural forces. The exhibition features the work of select international and domestic artists who respond to a world in flux... Read more
Micaëla Gallery is pleased to announce “Winter Salon 2009,” a multi-media exhibition that speaks to ever shifting states—psychologies, human bodies, societies and natural forces. The exhibition features the work of select international and domestic artists who respond to a world in flux, a world in which uncertainty about the environment, economy and national security yield creative output that evokes a nostalgic past, blurs the present and charges into the unknown future. Carmen Spera’s “House of Cards,” a glass sculpture, embodies this tenuous time—in a very literal representation, the already flimsy house of cards is made of fragile glass. Artist Prema Murthy’s “Tectonics” series studies globalization as a force of changeability—integration, disintegration and re-integration—producing ruptured physical and geographic bodies. In periods characterized by ambiguity, heightened tensions exist between the known and unknown, perception and misperception. Featured works by Marie-Lou Desmeules riff on this concept, disturbing the viewer through clever and deceptive use of performance, photography and paint—which she applies to her living, human subjects. The artists collectively demonstrate their preoccupation with the current moment, made up of liminal spaces and morphing modalities.
