The high ceilings, bright natural light and clean white walls of the James W Hansen Gallery are a great setting for my solo exhibition, (Re)Collect which is now on view through mid-May. Thank you to the staff at Pablo Center for helping me with the weeklong install of the exhibit - I spent a lot of time up and down the ladder to hang the almost 1000 tags that make up Inventory.
(Re)Collect brings together some older works that have been refreshed and expanded as well as new works that invite audience participation. I Collect asks viewers to fill out and hang small tags with answers to the questions “What do you collect?” and “Why do you collect it? I look forward to seeing how the pegboards fill up over the next months.
In the artwork for (Re)Collect, I aim to reflect on the many layers of meaning and history inherent in the process of natural history collecting. The details reveal unexpected relationships between human and nonhuman specimens, blurring the line between the observer and observed. There will be an artist talk on April 26, from 5-7pm.
The exhibit will be moving on to the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji, MN next. The making of many of the pieces this past fall and winter were thanks in part to a grant from the state arts board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature.
