By:Simmy Swinder
Natural Renditions at Marlborough Gallery's downtown
The exhibition consists of both up-and-coming art stars, such as Marlborough artists Steven Charles and Will Ryman, as well as relative unknowns like Amit Greenberg, a first-year art school student who was also included in Diana Campbell's recent pop-up exhibition, Pretty Young Things. Other artists who fit seamlessly into the show’s curatorial theme are Kent Henricksen, Vlatka Horvat, and Valerie Hegarty.
The exhibition covers
Installation view of “Natural Renditions.” Courtesy
This cohesive approach to curating is repeated throughout the show, but less directly. The works in the second and third rooms on the first floor of the gallery produce a dialogue with each other, as if the dividing wall was not there. Wade Kavanaugh & Stephen B. Nyugen’s installed sprawling, branch-like limbs that make up a mock-animate material emerging from the other side of this wall which helps unite the two rooms.
Installation view of “Natural Renditions.” Courtesy
The exhibition’s theme provides a range of works that fit within its mission; objects made of organic material as well as works representing organic material, digitally manipulated images of fantastical, Avatar-esc environments are complemented by Vlatka Horkat’s photographs of nowhere but everywhere locations with “Here to Stay” written out with leaves. Such juxtapositions are continued on the second floor, where two synthetic webbing designs flank an image of an unidentifiable green substance, randomly perforated and giving way to a scene of a glacier in situ. The same artist, Shane McAdams, made all three works. The diversity of artistic output is also present in Diana Cooper’s work, who on the one hand created a synthetic 3-dimensional world of overlapping and crisscrossing linear forms, similar to that found in computer chips, and on the other, wrapped branches with yarn and stuck them in a glass case resting on a bed of sticks resembling a bird’s nest.
“Natural Renditions” at Marlborough Gallery
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Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 10-5:30
Gallery website: www.marlboroughgallery.com
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