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Hera artist Molly Kaderka installed her solo exhibition at the Jamestown Art Center right before social distancing and school, institution and business closures happened. Today she is sharing images from the exhibition. Enjoy!

You can find information about the exhibition below the photographs.















A Mythic Pause 
Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown RI
March 5- April 25
Artist: Molly Kaderka  (IG handle @mkaderka )
Contributing Furniture: Kit Howland (IG handle @kithowland )

Short Blurb
A Mythic Pause creates an immersive environment with large-scale, site-specific paintings laminated directly to the walls. Using a combination of printmaking, drawing and painting, Kaderka depicts two different realms: the celestial and the terrestrial. Framed by a tactile printed rock surface, the circular compositions act as an aperture to the distant and intangible stars

Exhibition Statement 
In the exhibition A Mythic Pause, Molly Kaderka presents her latest works, which explore deep time embodied in geological formations and the night sky and engaged in a delicate interplay of terrestrial and celestial realms.

The centerpiece of the show is a series of five works that move the viewer from an experience of dense darkness—layers of heavy rock broken by a few slivers of sky—to an encounter with a nearly overwhelming brightness, as the work evokes the night sky four billion years hence, when the neighboring galaxy of Andromeda is predicted to collide with our own Milky Way.  Anchoring the series is an immense and exquisitely balanced formation of rock-like surfaces encircling a night sky, the ancient stones opening to the distant, intangible stars. 

These dramatic installations leave behind our traditional associations of rock and sky with permanence and stillness, illusions born out of our brief interactions with both.   In the nearly unfathomable span of deep time, everything is shifting, spinning, and changing. 

Comments

Donna Gustafson said…
Wow. The universe in a gallery!
Thanks Molly! looking forward to seeing more of your work in person in the future (within the next four billion years).
March 26, 2020 at 9:20 AM
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