The Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs will present “ATKA,” a series of photo-based works by William Eric Brown, on view in the Little Gallery from July 22 through August 20. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 22, from 3 to 5 PM. An artist’s talk with Brown and artist Steve Miller will be held on Sunday, July 23, at 3 PM.
William Eric Brown’s “Atka” series is based on a set of 35mm slides that his father shot in Antarctica during the 1960s on board the U.S. Navy icebreaker, U.S.S. Atka. Brown enlarges, stitches together, and reconstitutes these images with spray paint and diagrammatic charcoal marks to create a new narrative that emphasizes the isolation and remoteness of the landscape and in many respects its relevance to the current climate crisis.
“Tara Geer: Sown in the Half Light,” is a drawing installation, opening on Saturday, July 22, and on view through August, 20. A reception for the artist will be held from 5 to 7 PM on Saturday, July 22. The artist will lead a talk and visual thinking strategies
discussion with the audience on August 20 at 3 PM.
Though drawing is traditionally considered the preparation or practice for, say, painting, Geer harnesses the temporality and quickening of a sketch to make large, monochromatic work with stark emotional power. Her drawings have both expertise and moving roughness. In this first public, large-scale installation of her work, strange bulbs, pale stems, and wildly scribbled panels hum with possibility and raw, determined life.