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RUIN /to/ RUNES
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Opening Reception Friday, September 6, 6-9pm
Artist Talk Tuesday, September 17, 7-9pm
Closing Reception Friday, October 4, 6-9pm
Gallery hours during the exhibition are Friday and Saturday, 11-4pm

Artists: Peter Foley Amy Hibbs Robin Mullery
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Ruin (noun) /ˈrooin/: the physical destruction or disintegration of something the state of disintegrating or being destroyed 

Runes (noun) /roon/: a mark of mysterious significance a secret or whisper, something hidden a surface bearing runes, and used as augury or divination 
The three artists in this exhibition confront the impermanent nature of identity through unique manipulation of commonly discarded or sidelined materials. They use ruins as a lens to see through; harvesting the residue of their surroundings and employing the materials to construct new definitions of environment, place, and identity. Their work invites us to see beyond the discarded and disavowed, to see runes in the ruin. 
Mullery’s three-dimensional works and installations are a meditation on harm and repair, vulnerability and change. Instead of turning away from damage done she embraces the ruin of a place asking the question, how do we heal. Ultimately redemptive she meets crumbling fissures and discarded bits with tenderness. 
Foley’s paintings also scrape up and mine the detritus of the hardware store. He uses discarded house paint in taupe, mauve and beige layers punctuated by breakthrough greens, scarlets, or yellows. The bright colors and cryptic symbols inscribed in the neutral field dance in teasing counterpoint to a search for meaning. His video work explores enigmatic and iconoclastic characters in the art world milieu. 
Hibbs employs a creative cohort of insects and microbes in the organically transformative process of decomposition. Each two-dimensional piece visually records the composting process, an imprinted documentation of the weeks in which the composters feasted, changing decaying plant matter back into soil. Hibbs’ videos reveal hidden organic processes as they relate to human embodiment.
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    • Loss and Gain; text isle
    • Tree of Life
    • More the Merrier 2024
    • Spirit of Japan and Horses
    • Letting Go
    • Maverick Photographers
    • Roberto Fierro
    • More the Merrier 2023
    • Journals on Recycled Wood
    • Human Nature
    • Printed and Stitched
    • Timeframes & Formats
    • Akitu
    • Portraits/Retratos
    • More the Merrier 2022
    • Travel Perspectives
    • Barrows
    • Snippets
    • Nicholaus Dalton
    • Pathways
    • Yunan
    • More the Merrier
    • Francisco Ramirez
    • SVOS
    • Joshua Curry Beacon
    • Into That Dark Sea
    • The Persistence of Yearning
    • Beyond Rust and Dust
    • Sequestering Amereece
    • Futurity
    • Emergence
    • Culture in Transition: Oliver Klink
    • Krista Fay
    • More the Merrier 2019
    • Pablove: Fighting Childhood Cancer
    • Ruin to Runes
    • Victor Zaballa
    • Diaspora in Bloom
    • Interwoven Time
    • Ambient Dew Point
    • Joe Bastida
    • More the Merrier 2018
    • Lewis deSoto >
      • Upcoming
    • Heather Deyling
    • Nature's Colors
    • Mindscape
    • Arousing Biophilia
    • Tulio Flores
    • More the Merrier '17
    • Vision and Voice
    • Treasured Lands
    • Undercurrents
    • Silicon Valley Open Studios
    • 44.4 Seconds
    • More the Merrier
    • Rock Paper Scissors
    • There is no art without you
    • Wildlife Beyond Borders
  • Contact/Parking
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