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Monday, October 24, 2011
Visual Art / Events / Architecture Object lessons
Posted By Barbara Schreiber on Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:45 PM
- Photo courtesy of McColl Center for Visual Art
- "Corpuscles" by Carrie Becker, part of the Elements exhibit
By Barbara Schreiber
Incorporating recycled materials, installations large and small, and wearables that challenge the idea of wearability, several current exhibitions pretty much run the gamut of three dimensional art.
In Elements at McColl Center for Visual Art, Michael Gayk and Carrie Becker deal with the organic and the cellular. Although Gayk’s work could accurately be called jewelry and Becker’s soft sculpture, these innocuous labels don’t begin to describe the bold content.
Gayk combines 3-D printing and other current technology with traditional craft. He's at his best here in a sequence of bracelets that, viewed from left to right on the gallery wall, mutate from sleek design to something you might see under an electron microscope, to pieces that look like sentient beings capable of inflicting harm. Even though produced over a period of several years, these controlled works have a hyper-focused consistency.
