March 27 - April 18, 2010
Reception: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 2-5 PM
Question & Answer Session: Saturday, April 17, 3 PM. Moderated by Gordon Hatt.
Mark Adair’s Death’s Children is a new series of small charcoal drawings that completes Death Drinks, a narrative about the adventures of Death in the modern world. Adair has worked on and off on the series for a decade and it has been exhibited in many shows in various stages of development. Both the subject matter and the labour intensive and detailed style of the work are inspired by the art of the difficult and dangerous 14th Century in western Europe.
Mary Catherine Newcomb’s spring exhibition at Loop features a 4’ long reclining “chocolate” hare. The hare regards the viewer balefully and actually consists of a malleable material that smells slightly oily or rancid. A suspended oversized apple blossom crown that is made from copper, bronze and steel accompanies the rabbit. While heralding the beginning of spring, this exhibition juxtaposes ideas about beauty, illusion, consumption and our complex and often romantic relationship with nature.
