Duncan Robert Anderson, George Blaha and Dan Gamble: Portage
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, September 10th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, October 21st
Portage: Duncan Robert Anderson, George Blaha and Dan Gamble, ” curated by Troy Klyber, is on view through October 21st in RAC’s Freeark Gallery. A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition, with essays by Troy Klyber, Douglas Reichert Powell, and David Richards.
Portage is the act of carrying from one navigable passage to another, or a route through which this activity occurs. As human beings we navigate our own individual streams. But we are also social beings, compelled to reach out, to find and connect with fellow travelers. Some make creative works to serve as signposts and markers, or maps, of their journey. Carrying these creations, they occasionally leave their streams to converge and compare notes, to share what they have learned along the way.
Three artists–Duncan Robert Anderson, George Blaha, and Dan Gamble–have made a portage, so to speak, to Riverside, which itself occupies an area near the historical Chicago Portage. They come from parallel streams, bearing work rendered from disparate media and materials — sculpture, digital images, painting, and drawing. Yet there is a natural affinity and kinship in their works, arising from shared interests in history, cosmology, mythology, physics, science fiction, and philosophy. It is through their individual searches for meaning, and their works, that the artists seek to connect with fellow travelers and cultivate a sense of wonder in the world, marking points along their exploration of this and other realms, real and imagined.
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