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Shelter: A Unique Vision of a Universal Subject

Date: Sun, May 18th 2008 - Sun, June 8th 2008
Event Tags: Art Shows
Location: Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

In the Gallery
  Shelter: A Unique Vision of a Universal Subject through Artist’s Books

Shelter focuses attention on a universal subject and one of humanity’s most basic needs, in all its manifestations: the home.  The work examines the psychology of personal space, current issues in the housing market, homelessness, the mortgage crisis and loss of historic fabric. Shelter contains the art work of 43 Book Artists from around the country and will travel to selected cities throughout the United States in 2008.  A 30% commission on sales from the exhibit will benefit a local housing charity in each city where it is exhibited.  Pyramid Atlantic will be making contributions to Habitat for Humanity.
 

Preconceived Notions
New digital prints by Bridget Sue Lambert

Bridget Sue Lambert is a digital print and multimedia artist who continues her investigation of the near-universal experience we all share in the game of love and interpersonal relationships. Referencing loss, emptiness, and the after-effects of moving on, Lambert draws on memories and images from both childhood and adulthood as she distills personal experiences to engage in a contemporary discourse. Lambert stages and photographs vignettes of domesticity, tension, loss, and presence-versus-absence. She explores the physical and psychological spaces that we inhabit in relationships, and how those spaces are disrupted or abandoned when a relationship struggles.

 
 

The Daily Settlement:
A Collaborative piece
A site-specific installation in the Kunst Vault by Edgar Endress and Kelly Carr.  The Daily Settlement explores several aspects of American culture from the perspective of the house as one of the foundations of the American dream. The exhibit is a digital video/sound installation that addresses the elusive notion of security and neighborhood at a time when both are being challenged by a volatile housing market, a country at war and ever changing neighborhood demographics.

 

Pyramid Atlantic thanks the sponsors of this exhibition; Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County, the Maryland States Arts Council, and Polly Driscoll of Weichert Realors.