Chris Cannon posted on March 04, 2011 12:57
Artwork by Martha MacLeish will be on display Monday (March 7) through April 1 in the Moon Gallery at Berry College.
A gallery talk will be at 7 p.m. March 7 and is free and open to the public. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
MacLeish is an assistant professor and head of the Fundamentals Studio at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, in Bloomington. She works with sheets of polyvinyl chloride plastic as a primary construction material, designing panels, hollow structures and solid forms. Color is introduced both as a modifying element through the application of paint, and as an intrinsic part of the built structure as stripes created through the lamination of colored layers.
An excerpt from her artist’s statement reads: “To have a ‘light grasp’ describes an attitude of willing allowance over willfulness, and for an artist, indicates an appreciation of the role that the ephemeral and arbitrary have in keeping a work of art alive. Gathering strength from the external, rather than seeing it as something from which to be guarded, is a potent idea and guides my current artistic practice.”
MacLeish’s solo exhibitions include the Prince Street Gallery in New York, The Artist Project in Chicago, and Broad Street Gallery in Athens, Ga. Recently, MacLeish has been an artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Park, Ill., the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun Gap, Ga., and at the Toos Neger Foundation in The Netherlands.
