About the Exhibitions
Opening reception: Second Thursday, May 8, 6 to 9 pm
paraphrase/NEXUS: Wednesday, May 28, 8 pm, with Michele Tantoco and Liza Clark
Rebecca Gilbert will be exhibiting ghostly, layered glue etchings along with wheat pasted woodcut installations in an exhibition
entitled Dirt Thirst.
Dirt Thirst is about intense yearning; it is about emotional cravings manifesting themselves physically in the search for a quintessential bluebird of happiness. It's about the excitement and optimistic hopefulness associated with setting new goals and imagining change.
At the same time, it's about the struggle to achieve, the fear of failure, success and change, as well as the fear of the absence of
change. Dirt Thirst is the feeling that something is missing from life and the mission and the struggle of working toward realizing what is missing while keeping together what one has so far.
Virginia Batson presents her second solo show at Nexus, entitled substance, sustenance. This is Batson's first exhibition since the birth of her child.
"After having deeply immersed myself in the extraordinary and completely ordinary processes of pregnancy, natural birth, breastfeeding, and conscious parenting, I've never felt so intricately enmeshed in the procreative fabric of the world," Batson
says. "The natural processes of growth and evolution continue to inspire me in the studio. My art-making process seeks to approximate
the beauty, random and patterned, created by cellular growth. "
A series of small drawings begun during her pregnancy explore reproduction, gestation, and microcosmic growth with a restrained
palette: pencil, needle, glue, and the artists hair.
About the Gallery
NEXUS/Foundation for Today’s Art was established in 1975 as an artist-run, non-profit, non-collecting exhibition space. The Nexus mission is to showcase challenging, innovative, and compelling contemporary art within a context intended to stimulate creative thought and dialog both among our artist membership and within the community at large.
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