Susan Erony: Towers and Other Thoughts at Trident Gallery

Description

Trident Gallery is pleased to present Towers and Other Thoughts, an exhibition of mixed media paintings by Susan Erony having motifs of towers and human hands. Towers and Other Thoughts is the second solo exhibition of Erony's paintings at Trident Gallery and will be on view October 29 – November 27, 2016. Gallery hours are Saturday 10–7; Friday, Sunday, and Monday 10–5; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 12–5, and by appointment. The Gallery will be closed Wednesday and Thursday, November 23¬¬–24, for Thanksgiving, and hours will be 12-7 on Friday, November 25th. The gallery will host an Opening Reception for the artist on Saturday, October 29, 5-7pm. The following weekend, on Sunday, November 6, at 4pm, the gallery will host a Conversation with Susan Erony about her artistic process and recent work. On Saturday, November 19, at 7pm, the Trident Live Art Series will present Towers and Other Thoughts in Performance, an exploration through performance of ideas and materials informing the exhibition. Spoken text, music, visual art, and dance will be produced by Gallery Director Matthew Swift and Trident Live Art Series Director Sarah Slifer Swift in collaboration with artist Susan Erony. The Gallery will close early at 5pm to prepare for the performance. Susan Erony's art is always engaged with history, is often politically charged, and frequently responds and refers to genocide. Consider a pair of examples from the coming exhibition. Erony's title Wishing I Were Bruegel refers the viewer to two well-known paintings of the Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525–1569). While paying homage to the exquisite paintings of the Renaissance master, Erony's painting embodies both the continuity and the change of meaning of the myth over the millennia. Erony's The Great Wall of China takes its title from a short work of prose by the Czech-born, German-speaking writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924), in which a narrator from the south of China reflects on the remoteness of t