D’Arcy/Simpson Presents: “Wither and Bloom” by Jordan Nobuko Baker and Xan Peters
Join us for the opening reception of Wither and Bloom, including paintings by Jordan Nobuko Baker and sculptures by Xan Peters.
Employing the techniques of the classical Dutch Baroque Vanitas paintings, Baker creates still-life work of flowers, fruit, vegetables and skulls that explore themes of death, transience and renewal. Her subjects symbolize aging, sickness and decay–the fleetingness of life. They are reverently and sumptuously painted in lush, vibrant colors-their beauty ignorant of their impermanence.
Xan Peters also uses the skull as a symbol of lost corporeality and truth. He sculpts fine white porcelain to create skulls of extinct animals. They are smooth, almost translucent, and etched with the stories of the species’ lives when they walked on Earth. These etchings, a kind of hieroglyphics of the artist's creation, remind us that these animals had profound and distinct existences that have been forgotten or mythologized. These works serve as a voice for the voiceless, and as an insistence that we acknowledge our own powerlessness to tell our stories after we are gone.
The opening reception will be held on November 30th, 4-6 PM. On view through January 5th, Fridays-Mondays 12-5 PM and by appointment.
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