ODDity
Marcy Adzich

Much of my art practice involves developing sculptural objects that to varying degrees, work with ideas about displacement and memory. At the heart of my work, I explore sensory and psychological locations creating forms which activate space, material, presence and absence in an intricate relationship with the viewer.

In this recent series titled “ODDity,” I have chosen to work with small propeller-like forms, cast in silver incorporated into larger swollen masses made from paper pulp. The forms consist of abstracted, fragmentary “chunks” of landscape and objects separated from their usual and familiar context. The tension between the form and material activate the pieces , as if the propellers are sustaining these forms, keeping their existence from deflating or collapsing. The connection between the whole and the fragments of each piece imbue the concept of time and space contemplated by memory.

These objects relate to my desire to open up an extended “time-space,” connecting the viewer with the presence of the objects and the temporal dimensions implicit in the work. The presence of these tactile material objects counteracts today’s culture of media images and dematerialization of virtual space, speaking compellingly about our everyday habit to quickly read objects through image, signs and symbols without actual comprehension or understanding.

In the frenetic pace of life, memories and experiences are compressed, fragmentary and free-floating. This series of work asserts the need for some sense of temporal anchoring, our desire to find a sense of place or “grounding” through the language of chosen materials, forms and configuration of space.

-Marcy Adzich

Exhibition date: July 21 – August 20, 2005

gallery  Campbell  Naked