Ground Floor Contemporary is pleased to
present Fragmented Recall, an exhibition featuring new
work by Sara Garden Armstrong and Barbara Hirschowitz. Both artists are
working with recollected imagery using chance, change and encounter.
Armstrong is a visual artist who works in a myriad of directions and scales,
from atrium sculpture to small artist books. This body of work, Murmuring Landscape paintings and drawings, involves the
mirroring of changing organic processes. The concerns of the work are fundamental: control / loss of control,
fluidity / presence, and change / exploration.
All rely on the properties of materials as they explore shifts of
meaning. The
work uses transparency, mapping, and layering. With the drawings and paintings,
this calligraphy forms a language, layering the past and the present.
Hirschowitz is a painter using canvas and paper to visualize her
work from a history of living moments. With confident, colorful layers she
describes hybrid spaces- an unknown place rendered in a familiar manner, often prompting the viewer to question if they might recognize it from their own
past. Though the element of space has
always been present in her work, the current body evokes simplicity and
directness. She describes this work as
being one of ambiguity in which a physical encounter is left.
Ground Floor Contemporary
is a cooperative art gallery committed to promoting and expanding the visual
arts scene in the greater Birmingham area. The gallery space is open to the
public from 1pm to 4pm on Sundays and by appointment. It is located at 111 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd S,
Birmingham, AL 35233.
