‘Body Doubles’ by Amanda Baron-artist reception
Please join us Saturday August 23rd at 4:30 to celebrate the opening of ‘Body Doubles’ by Amanda Baron.
In Body Doubles, Amanda Baron explores the tension between inner experience and physical form. There is a focus on reflection, transformation, and multiplication throughout the imagery and process. Each piece begins as a digital collage which becomes the framework for a digital drawing, and is then translated through paint, yarn or video. Some synthetic elements are lost in play while texture and tangibility are added.
With a focus on natural motifs, portraiture, and personal symbology, each piece glimpses into a surreal environment, acting as visual metaphors for emotional spaces.
A deliberate imbalance in scale and detail invoke the feeling of revisiting a memory – some aspects rendered with special attention and others flattened into bold graphic shapes. The figures are echoed in their surroundings, as a second body or emotional double.
The exhibit runs August 23rd through October 5th and is open during Blyth Festival box office hours or by appointment with gallery volunteers.