Friday, May 29th
Musical Performance
Featuring Performances by:
Featuring Performances by:
Wolves in the Throne Room
Krallice
Forensics
Forensics
7:00PM $12
Friday, June 5th
First Friday Opening Reception
Natural Inconclusion:
Works by Jason Lanka and Joe Meiser
Works by Jason Lanka and Joe Meiser
Opening Reception First Friday June 5th 7-11PM
Exhibit runs through July 3rd.
Exhibit runs through July 3rd.
Closing Reception Friday, July 3rd 7-11 pm
The boundaries between human and nature swell and retreat like an oceans tide. Technology and urbanization move us further away from nature, but yet we still yearn for it and try to fabricate it through these mediums. Is it natural for humans to recreate nature? Jason Lanka and Joe Meiser use their sculptures to exemplify the human condition and its dialogue with nature in the current cultural climate.
Artists Statements:
Jason Lanka:
www.jasonlanka.com
Boundary; something that marks or fixes a limit (as of territory). The line that divides one area of land from another. The space at which our culture comes in contact with the environment inspires my creative work. Much can be understood about the nature of how our society defines its role and place within the natural world by the observation of this boundary.
Jason Lanka:
www.jasonlanka.com
Boundary; something that marks or fixes a limit (as of territory). The line that divides one area of land from another. The space at which our culture comes in contact with the environment inspires my creative work. Much can be understood about the nature of how our society defines its role and place within the natural world by the observation of this boundary.
I seek to address the demarcation of our species’ relationship with the land. Am I of the land or in the land? Each piece made within a lineage of exploration has set out to answer this question. Our identity as people and a nation are so often defined by our place within our environment and how we view our relationship with the natural world.
Joe Meiser:
www.joemeiser.com
Our human perceptions and faculties are limited, allowing us only a partial understanding of the world around us. Many of our questions about the true nature of things cannot be answered conclusively; and yet, humans have a fantastic tradition of explaining the unknown. These explanations can offer us comfort, and can make it possible to be at ease with a world which might otherwise overwhelm us. The human tendency to mythologize is both the subject and strategy of my work—while analyzing our compulsion to create metaphysical narratives, I simultaneously weave my own. Our physical bodies are limited and impermanent, and in humanity I observe a universal desire to transcend these limitations, whether it is through the cultivation of metaphysical beliefs, or the modification and augmentation of the physical body. The body feels quite permanent to its owner, but it is actually a temporary material object. Each owner of a body is well acquainted with, and necessarily bound up in the physical.
www.joemeiser.com
Our human perceptions and faculties are limited, allowing us only a partial understanding of the world around us. Many of our questions about the true nature of things cannot be answered conclusively; and yet, humans have a fantastic tradition of explaining the unknown. These explanations can offer us comfort, and can make it possible to be at ease with a world which might otherwise overwhelm us. The human tendency to mythologize is both the subject and strategy of my work—while analyzing our compulsion to create metaphysical narratives, I simultaneously weave my own. Our physical bodies are limited and impermanent, and in humanity I observe a universal desire to transcend these limitations, whether it is through the cultivation of metaphysical beliefs, or the modification and augmentation of the physical body. The body feels quite permanent to its owner, but it is actually a temporary material object. Each owner of a body is well acquainted with, and necessarily bound up in the physical.
