Friday, December 1, 2017

Reading the Signs






This body of work is currently on view at the Bennington Free Library  as part of the Wall works program, till Jan 2018

This show features a combination of prints and paintings that present  messages that seem direct and others that are are warnings if you only know where to look for them.

The Canary Warnings are a series of paintings inspired by the practice of keeping a canary in a coal mine as an early warning system for miners. When the bird dies the air will soon be too toxic for humans as well. The canary serves a kind of guardian, like a life force monitor. This series considers a myriad of possibilities about the ways in which one could be warned of tragedies or other dangerous situations.  

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