The Basement Gallery
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                       Automatic Terrain
              March 2nd, 2007 - March 30th, 2007                                                                                            Click here for Installation Shots
           
Featured artists are George Kennedy in the main gallery w/ a sculpture by Amanda Baird and Photography by Kelly Dykstra in the Project Space.

George Kennedy

        "Automascapes"
                                

              

Kelly Dykstra
My photography is an exploration of the internal. Whether it is investigating the structure of memory, iconography in the public and private atmospheres, family and human bonds, loss and impermanence or evocative sentimentality, I am fueled by the desire to explore the uncertainty and spirituality of the human condition and the world in which we live.

      This Too Shall Pass
                     

 

         In Between Memory and Time
                

          

Amanda Baird

                         
  George Kennedy makes mixed media works and states that “Over the past several years I have created a vast visual library of photographic images taken during my travels to ruins in remote sites
around the world. My fascination with ruin and decay is given free reign in the marriage of iconography gleaned from such sites as the Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala, Gaudi’s Barcelona, and the
treacherous ruins of Bannerman’s Arsenal on the Hudson River. I have traveled to London to gather images of the crumbling Victorian cemeteries, Highgate  and Kensal Green (featured here in “Uberworld”) and, last summer, I spent ten days in the jungles of the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico photographing eccentric surrealist Edward James’ extraordinary eighty acre sculpture garden.”
   Kelly Dykstra’s photography is an exploration of the internal. She says “whether it is investigating the structure of memory, iconography in the public an private atmospheres, family and human
bonds, loss and impermanence or evocative sentimentality. I am fueled by the desire to explore the uncertainty and spirituality of the human condition and the world in which we live.
    Amanda Baird creates sculptures that provoke thought and encourage further investigations. What seems to be an immediate interpretation dissolves as the viewer begins to engage with the
complexity of her works.