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News & ArtsFriday, January 29, 2010
Visual Art Currently Hanging: Nicholas Nyland
Posted by Jen Graves on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:23 AM
- Crucible, papier-mache over wire, acrylic paint, foil, wire, tacks, wood rings
- Hammock, oil on linen
Here's what I've written about Nicholas Nyland, who's making great use of the tiny back space at SOIL through tomorrow (last chance!):
Nyland's ceramic, paper, and papier-mâché sculptures and watercolor/acrylic/spray-painted paintings, by contrast, are sweet messes. Hedge is a pile of pinched and pulled unglazed brown ceramic bits formed into the vague shape of a hedge, an object not trying to be a hedge so much as pointing out the absurdity of anything trying to be like anything else.
Also up are engrossing installations by new members Iole Alessandrini and Julie Alpert (I used to have great images of these, before my hard drive was erased*). Ellen Ziegler's mirrored glass shelves casting shadows hang on the opposite wall from where they were seen just two months ago. (Um, SOIL?)
The gallery is open noon to five tomorrow.
*Yes, I will back up in future. Still, I am angry with you, Mac factory.
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