Peat Duggins: Black Room October 18, 2008

PEAT DUGGINS
BLACK ROOM

OCTOBER 18 - NOVEMBER 15, 2008

Please join us Saturday, October 18th from 8-10 p.m. as Art Palace presents Black Room, a solo exhibition featuring the work of Peat Duggins.

Starting with the hypothesis that the western frontier—largely untouched or else having been built fast and furiously—is relatively free from history's yoke, Peat Duggins presents the west as clean data for a cultural litmus test reflecting our values now. He develops Hickory Ridge, a fictitious community that has been the focus of his work for the past five years, to explore the personal and social identity of 21st century America.

Black Room provides the back-story of Hickory Ridge. The work in the show is a meditation on history itself, specifically the ebb and flow of human progress as set against the perennial, natural world. Peat transforms the gallery into a civic space that references both historical architecture and elements of our everyday environment. The most dominant elements of the exhibition are eight woven tapestries that correspond to compass directions traditionally associated with seasons and time of the day. Seen in the round they form a complete cycle of nature and culture.

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