END WORLD’S END, our show for Fall 2024, offers the work of three artists who confront change in three unique ways.
ANNE PERCOCO creates a littered environment made from trash re-created into leaves. Her work speaks to the natural environment and our wanton destruction of habitats in our giddy race to consume but also asks important questions about HOW we see our surroundings. As Anne says…
‘This installation transforms the gallery space into an interactive environment, where the sculpture's components—crafted from discarded paper, styrofoam, and plastic found on Jersey City sidewalks—are dispersed across the floor. Each piece, cut into the shape of a leaf of a local tree species, shows how overlooked beauty and unique textures can be found in waste materials.
The scattered leaves represent a natural mantle of fallen leaves, which serves to nourish the soil, sequester carbon, and provide shelter for wildlife. The broom invites reflection on our human-centric value system, particularly in municipal landscape management, as fallen leaves are routinely collected and removed from urban spaces. This piece explores how waste, often hidden or ignored, can be both a burden and a resource.’
BILL KENNON offers an other-worldly take on the environment but this time culturally and transactionally. He mines the quotidian and banal in order to reveal the hidden, darker side.
‘The work is meant to evoke a disquieting and menacing surreal world. Common and banal signage and symbols from our everyday world are manipulated to express feelings of danger, eeriness and anxiety. My paintings are meticulously realistic because, by creating visual illusions, I want to make you see what's out there, all around you, in new ways.’
ANDREA McKENNA raises us into another dimension entirely with her burnt and manipulated hangings. Moving beyond earthly concerns, these pieces ask us to question what comes next, what remains after the hubristic human meets the infinite.
‘I create tapestries with textured figures, resembling a torn body, leaving parts uncovered, enabling light to peek through, and exposing their energy. I burn my work in places as an act of letting go of what was. The burlap becomes layered, rich with earthy color and ash.
My work shifts the viewer's viewpoint to engage in an alternative thought process and introduces them to figures, not of this world but perhaps of an “in-between” world. My works represent a spirit forming, traveling to its final destination - shedding all its earthly worries and carrying its newfound inner light.’
We welcome this opportunity to show the work of three artists who parse the world around them so insightfully while shedding clues to our mortality, our fears, our displacement from place, person and pursuits.
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