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Current Exhibition
Dana Carter: Letter to the Night
March 1 to April 7, 2012
For Dana Carter’s installation, Letter to the Night, the artist begins with a sculpture based on a skylight found in the Arts Center where the gallery is located. As if filled in or bricked up, color emanates from behind the piece and calls on the viewer to consider what lies beyond the frame of an idyllic landscape. This form is echoed throughout the space, counting time in shifting phases of light and shadow. Video, soundscape and drawings create a constellation of vantage points within the room. In these works, Carter steps into her practice; an ongoing exploration of the velocity of loss, the poetics of vision, word play and the slowness of the natural world. At the intersection of process, architecture and admiration for the cosmos, Carter considers the line between the rituals of observation and material experimentation in the studio. Working across disciplines to blur her interest in light, landscape and language, the work raises questions of movement and communication across a vast distance and reveals that the atmosphere is a faulty lens.
Shadow Velocities, the publication for the show, was written by and developed in collaboration with Karsten Lund, a writer and curator based in Chicago.
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