Institute of Contemporary Art at Main College of Art & Design: "A Fresh Greeting is Heard "

The Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D

Portland, Maine

On View from July 15 - September 18, 2022

This exhibition highlights four artists who navigate realms between abstraction and figuration to tease out the disquiet and enchantment found in wild spaces, the magic of transformation, the tendency to see meaningful imagery in ambiguous forms, and the agency of natural places as vibrant actors in our collective imagination. Works in painting, ceramics and video by Leon Benn, Lauren Mabry, Allison Schulnik, and Hannah Secord Wade on view.

“Lauren Mabry’s works capture transformative material forces beyond our control. Her ceramic objects appear fixed in medias res, clarifying materials and objects in transition. The least representational of the works on exhibit in the ICA, Mabry’s works provide pathways for us to imagine the wildness of evolutions outside our ken"… -Julie Poitras Santos

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