She’s Not Here:
Heather Rowe & Meredyth Sparks
2018
From the Press Release:
VERY is pleased to present She’s not here., an exhibition by New York-based artists Heather Rowe and Meredyth Sparks. Rowe’s work exists on the edge of sculpture, architecture, and installation, structuring spaces with repeating geometries that waver between sharpness and fragility. For Sparks, the extraction of found imagery from its source and its subsequent reconstruction negotiates the space between the material and the abstract and that which is perceived and which is implied.
For She’s Not Here., Rowe and Sparks have conjoined their distinct formal languages by employing a raised platform that frames the sculptures and mimics the gallery’s extant seating area. The exhibition design emphasizes the idea of a window display, nodding to an invisible “glass wall,” yet viewers are invited to walk on the platform and among the pieces. Both artist’s works engage with and challenge our notions of absence and presence, female representation and an implied danger or personal threat.
Exhibition dates: December. 2, 2017 – January 26, 2018
Photographs: Stewart Clements