Angie Bray and Suvan Geer
at the SCA Project Gallery,
Thru Aug. 31
By: Stacy Davies
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Featuring the “blueprints” or designs for installation
projects by Angie Bray and Suvan Geer, the SCA’s latest
show offers us a fascinating peek into the artistic process
in its early, if not infantile stage—not infantile,
because these sketches and drawings could easily stand alone
without further development into the third dimension. Geer’s
work for “Ephemera” is not only visually stunning,
but her method intriguing: using powdered milk burnt into
ash (instead of charcoal) and rubbed into warm beeswax on
paper, her soft images of milk bottles, a birdcage, a solitary
chair and a silhouetted sewing machine all hearken back
to her childhood memories, focusing on items that have or
soon will become obsolete. Submerging herself deeper into
that youthful, dreamy realm, her abstracts of soft spheres
lazing on top of each other might recall a pack of deflating
party balloons or the view from inside a mother’s
womb. Bray’s work in “Space and Motion Collaboration”
is more about transition, interaction and journey, and her
small, panoramic sheets of acetate hashed by sticks and
stones dipped in Sumi India ink appear to be endless landscapes
of prickly brush, barges seeking a reedy river shore or
even the tracks left by some small creature scuttling around
on a midday forage. Eventually, Geer and Bray translate
these intricate and compact drawings into intimate and expansive
installations (respectively) playing their uncanny perceptions
up against light and shadow in remembrance of a world that
is constantly in motion.
Angie Bray’s “Space and Motion Collaboration,”
Suvan Geer’s “Ephemera” at the SCA Project
Gallery, 281 S. Thomas St., Pomona; www.scagallery.com.
Thurs-Sat, noon-4PM. Artist reception Aug. 29, 6-9PM. Thru
Aug. 31. Free. |
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