Candace Compton Pappas
Landing
September 9 – October 18, 2014
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 12, 7 – 9 pm
Artist Statement :
The painting of 300 birds representing 300+ school girls kidnapped in Nigeria is a way I try to make sense of something both far away and up close at the same time. Living in a new home and setting up a new studio in a place that is surrounded by sky and trees, shimmering water, and a myriad of creatures, I wonder how to integrate such beauty with such suffering.
The paintings and constructions presented in this show represent this search, as well as my means of landing in a place that includes all experience; a home that embraces a wholeness made of infinite sadness as well as infinite beauty.
I have painted these birds, each one a representation of one of the kidnapped schoolgirls. They have been painted over the course of 3 months. I have created a blog documenting each bird as it lands in the painting.”
— Candace Compton Pappas
Selected work by other artists
showing in this exhibition
All gallery member-artists and the following visiting artists:
Jill Ault, Carlye Crisler, Idelle Hammond-Sass, Elaine Headly, Maria Ruggiero, Janet Kelman, Marlee Hoffman, Joanna Tlok, Nora Venturelli, Judith Jacobs, and Martha Rock Keller
