Heffernan and Chapman Solo Exhibitions at Catharine Clark Gallery September 6, 2008

Solo Exhibition: Julie Heffernan: "Broken Homes"
Video Room: "The Starling Drawings" by Adam Chapman
Artists Reception: Saturday, September 6, 1-3 pm
Exhibition Dates: August 30-September 27, 2008

Catharine Clark Gallery announces the upcoming solo exhibitions of new paintings by Julie Heffernan, titled "Broken Homes", and "The Starling Drawings", a video installation by Adam Chapman in the Video Room. An opening reception for the artists is Saturday, September 6, 1-3pm. A catalogue titled "Julie Heffernan: Broken Homes" will be available for sale.

Julie Heffernan pulls from a visual language that encompasses a range of historical references, from Biblical stories and Greek architecture to present-day urban sprawl and post-9/11 imagery. The paintings are a cacophony of visual information and serve as illustrations of the thoughts, ideas, concerns, and sexualized daydreams that filter through any mind on any given day. The exhibition title "Broken Homes" references the ubiquitous term relative to a home-life environment that diverges from the path of expected norms and the outmoded notions exemplified in the black and white 1950s era television. With the onset of the sexual liberation of the 1960s and 70s these ideas were displaced in favor of the full color family entertainment that told the story of creative single-parent and conjoined families--happily dysfunctional alternatives to the expected norm that provided layers of meaning and understanding where once there was only one, flat, colorless story onscreen at any given time.
The recent work of new media artist Adam Chapman combines contemporary technology with the traditional medium of drawing to explore the formation of imagery through seemingly random patterns. "The Starling Drawings", a selection from the series of 15 video works, draws on the simplicity of observing birds in flight and the natural phenomena of the Starling flight pattern. This is his first exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery.

Free.

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