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A Hex, A Hoax, A Guest, A Ghost

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Saturday, 23 April 2016 to Sunday, 12 June 2016
Opening: 
Saturday, 23 April 2016 - 6:00pm

A Hex, A Hoax, A Guest, A Ghost, opening Saturday, April 23, 6-9pm, will feature work by Anthony Hawley (Lincoln, NE) and Kirstin Lamb (Providence, RI) and will be on view at Darger HQ through June 12.  The exhibition will be the first in Darger HQ’s newly renovated exhibition space at 1804 Vinton Street. 

 

Both Anthony Hawley and Kirstin Lamb’s work is driven by a fascination with the narrative, an interest in investigating pictorial cliché. 

 

In Anthony Hawley’s hybrid practice, he makes installations, objects, performances and writings that transform everyday images and materials to create a sense of foreignness or of being a foreigner in one’s own country. His work is driven by a fascination with narrative and stories, and in particular what happens when the things we think we know so well—language, our bodies, etc—break down and what is released in those moments.  Hawley is particularly interested the blending of fiction and reality in our lives and how easily we get lost in between.

 

Kirstin Lamb has dedicated herself to a series of arrangements of paintings in space, pictures of pictures, and depictions of salon interiors.  These pictures are derived from a fascination with Vanitas still life, cabinets of curiosity, and paintings of paintings ranging from Matisse's Red Studio to David Teniers' depictions of the collection of Archduke Leopold of Austria.  Lamb is interested in how paintings retain their relevance by taking on ideas of death of painting or a kind of comedic curation-as-painting. She confronts the doubt so prevalent in painting by channeling the narrative content of the work through a distended process of accumulating not only imagery but multiple surfaces and frames within the one composition.
 
A Hex, A Hoax, A Guest, A Ghost is part of a series of collaborative and experimental projects facilitated by Darger HQ.  Darger HQ connects Nebraska contemporary artists to the world by creating collaborative working opportunities between local artists and national and international artists with related practices, and develops partnerships that benefit artists by providing new means of support through combined private and non-profit sources.  Darger HQ also educates, enriches and exposes the community to some of the most innovative contemporary art being produced today.

 
More information on the artists can be found on their websites:
www.artiswaydifferent.com
www.kirstinlamb.com

Artist ( Description ): 

Kirstin Lamb, Anthony Hawley

Telephone: 
402-209-5554
Venue ( Address ): 

Darger HQ

1804 Vinton Street, Omaha, NE 68108

Darger HQ , Omaha

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