Through the Loophole

Artist: Lucy H.G.

April 13 - May 28, 2004

Curator's Statement

Through The Loophole presents a dynamic network, which stimulates multiple senses and envelops us in a densely layered experience. This intricate layout invites us to navigate through interconnecting narratives and to investigate a fluid unfolding system.

A serge of luminous energy flickers and flows in the curved architecture of standing drawings presented on a large-scale glowing light table. We are invited to scan across, peer through and walk around translucent vellum drawings as narrative fragments skip and unravel.

A three by twenty-five foot vellum drawing spans across a wall, overlaps a saturated video projection and merges onto a perpendicular wall. The sensuous translucent vellum surface contains a mapped out digital drawing. The crisp, dotted and dashed line-work, which is normally associated with engineering graphics, reads as both precise and whimsical like looping courses plotted by lightning bugs.

The complex video projection (with an equally layered sound track) conjures allusions of personalized rituals and routines. Motifs of careful table settings at tea parties, curious passenger views from a moving automobile and figures bobbing and swimming in water are contained in simple curvilinear frames, which refer to car mirrors, and are connected by a circulatory system. This segueing structure gives us a window into the intimate and fragile idiosyncrasies of the human condition.

As if following a main artery, we are led by a directional digital line off of the vellum, onto the gallery wall and into a large-scale drawing. An index of images from the video projection reappear in transfers, which spill out and scatter across the wall. Free from confined framework or a vellum surface these images gently trace the recurring linear network and hover like daydreams.

Dion Johnson: Department of Art and Art History

Please visit http://www.art@workofbox.com
to view more work by Lucy H. G.

This exhibition was supported by the Durfee Foundation through the Artists' Resource for Completion Grant.