Homebound - a solo exhibition of work by Sunny Scarlett June 2, 2007

Tarryn Teresa Gallery presents the debut solo exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Sunny Scarlett. This exhibition will run from June 2 through July 7. An opening reception will take place on Saturday June 2 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.

Sunny Scarlett: Homebound features a new body of work that addresses issues of personal and national identity. Scarlett creates richly complex multi-planar collages, incorporating layers of finely etched glass, thousands of pieces of intricately cut and pinned paper, and politically charged imagery.

Exploiting the fragility of her media, Scarlett employs decorative and delicate materials such as glass, straight pins, and opulent fine paper to create ethereal assemblages that are at times guiltily beautiful. She integrates the ornamental aspect of her materials with a recurring visual vocabulary of symbols of the wealth of the United States—agriculture, oil, and currency—, but reversed or accompanied by images of roller coasters, birds and snowflakes to subvert and question the value and moral implications. She utilizes a purposefully intimate scale and labor-intensive process. Her practice of affixing and displaying a gathering of paper vestiges recalls scientific specimens held for observation and/or preservation.

The exhibition/series title—Homebound—deliberately plays upon the dual meaning of the term: it conveys the idea of being both restricted by and compelled to one’s “home.”

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