{"id":6500,"date":"2018-01-03T01:12:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T06:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=6500"},"modified":"2017-12-27T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T19:18:08","slug":"somewhere-between-here-and-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/somewhere-between-here-and-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere Between Here and There"},"content":{"rendered":"

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COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n

“Somewhere Between Here and There”: Vanessa Woods
\nat Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco
\n13 January-24 February 2018<\/h2>\n

Vanessa Woods’ solo exhibition, “Somewhere Between Here and There” presents a new body of work created from the archive of 1940s-60s paper ephemera and objects that Woods recently inherited from her deceased collage mentor\/photographer Ken Graves. Part elegy, part eulogy, the collages in “Somewhere Between Here and There” engage in a seductive illusion. Each collage reveals a subject navigating a set comprised of layers that can be pulled up or pulled apart to reveal other realms. The varying perspectives of space and scale function like a magician\u2019s sleight of hand, continually reorienting the viewer and further accentuating references to artifice, theater and illusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy relationship to collage is essentially a questioning about the world and my own experiences,\u201d Woods says of the current series. \u201cThe ongoing creation of this work is both an homage to my mentor, and a way to memorialize Ken\u2019s work. It implicates his continued presence in my life and I feel like we are collaborating between worlds, space and time,\u201d says Woods.<\/p>\n

The collages in “Somewhere Between Here and There” generate psychological spaces that invoke the borderlands of dreams and the shadow worlds inhabited by those we mourn. The tension between tangible and ephemeral, concrete and abstract, is given weight by the presence of protagonists in the collages, who often stand at thresholds between worlds. Rituals of mourning are also a reoccurring motif, specifically the Jewish tradition of leaving a pebble on the gravestone as a memento to the deceased\u2019s life. Throughout the work, stones populate the landscapes, or sets, floating mid-air, being pulled by subjects or resting singularly on surfaces. Finally, many of the collages incorporate the use of clouds, waves and rippled sand as a means to trace past activity\u2014atmospheric, geological, cultural, personal\u2014and change wrought by time.<\/p>\n

With a vast inherited archive at its origin, the works in “Somewhere Between Here and There” navigate the places between memory and history; the known, and the lost; and the legacy of artist bonds formed across generations. A selection of over twenty collages made by Woods\u2019 between 2016-2017, as well as original collages by Ken Graves, courtesy of Anglim Gilbert Gallery, will be on display for the exhibition.<\/p>\n

(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)<\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Jack Fischer Gallery<\/strong>
\n311 Potrero Avenue
\nSan Francisco, California 94103 USA
\n(415) 522-1178<\/p>\n

Hours:<\/strong>
\nTuesday-Saturday, 11AM-5:30PM
\nand by appointment<\/p>\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0| FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

Image:<\/strong>
\nObstacles<\/em>
\nby Vanessa Woods
\nImage courtesy of the artist and Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLLAGE ON VIEW “Somewhere Between Here and There”: Vanessa Woods at Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco 13 January-24 February 2018 Vanessa Woods’ solo exhibition, “Somewhere Between Here and There” presents a new body of work created from the archive…<\/p>\n

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