SIGNS OF THE FOREST

SIGNS OF THE FOREST Exhibition: July 17-August 21, 2010 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 17, 6-9 pm Artists: Kim Abeles | Marsia Alexander-Clarke | Vaughn Bell | Joseph Kriss Bradley | Carrie Burckle Marie-Laure Ilie | Maddy Le Mel | Mary Ellen Long | Luigia Martelloni | John Montich Sarah Perry | Tanja Rector | Sue Ann Robinson | Pat Warner | Larry White | Meeson Pae Yang Curated by Jean Clad Arena 1 Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of SIGNS OF THE FOREST, a group exhibition about the forest, metaphorically, physically and philosophically. Each of the sixteen artists in the show has been working with nature and/or ideas about nature, and collectively their works, whether made of stones, leaves, branches and bones, or in video or photographic representations, ask the viewer to recall the feeling of “forest” – where the forest is but a signifier for nature herself. "I think nothing is to be hoped from you if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you than any other in this world, or in any world." - Henry David Thoreau