The Basement Gallery
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Automatic Terrain
March 2nd, 2007 - March 30th, 2007
      
installation shots

           

            

            
Lee Ranaldo Has Silver Wings (aka "LRHSW") provided the sounds during the evening of the opening reception the members
of the "drone rock" group stayed within the balloon boundaries while their experimental sounds filled the space of the gallery.
       
  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.