The Arts Incubator in the Crossroads invites you to join us
from 6 to 9
p.m.
at our Cocoon Gallery during First Friday,
March 4, for the opening
of
Erica Mahinay's new exhibit Re:Describe. The
event is free and open to the
public.
In addition, the Hello Art Lounge opens at 5:30 p.m. in the
third-floor loft at
the
Arts Incubator, where more than 20 artists studios also are
open for visits. The first Hello Art Trolley departs for other galleries at 6:15 p.m. Hello Art is free to members; a $10 donation is requested from
visitors. All are
welcome.
Erica Mahinay's selected works for Re:Describe
are a culmination of a body of work that draws upon the language of
painting, utilizes the familiarity of the home, and uses an unconventional use
of materiality to create play between reality and illusion.
These selected works were instigated and executed during Mahinay's recent
residency experiences, which included a two-month residency at the Vermont
Studio Center this past fall, granted in part by the Arts Council of
Metropolitan Kansas City's ArtsKC Fund, and during her year-long residency from
2009-2010 through the Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project Studio
Residency
Program.
"As an artist, it is my ambition to amplify the scope of my
work through compelling visual play, extensive dialogue and examining my
relationship to the history of painting," Mahinay said. "My work highlights
parallels between how memory and painting function, recognizing both as acts of
fabrication, which have the ability to divulge or dismantle
truth.
"Utilizing the familiarity of
the home undermines the complexity of human experience, in a way that approaches
the uncanny and intermingles myth, memory, dreams and imagination," she
said.
