"Elements" features the work of two artists, Michael Gayk and current resident, Carrie Becker. Join us at 1 PM, Saturday, October 8 for a free talk as these artists walk you through their exhibition, addressing their work and creative process.
Carrie Becker
Using complex and simple formations found in nature, Carrie Becker creates installations and photographs that replicate plant and animal cell structures. Becker’s organic sculptural forms employ the use of biomorphic shapes to illicit a visceral response while employing common materials like tissue paper, foam, nylon, gauze and wax. Each work exists in a space that lies between the natural and the man-made, the known and the unreal, the recognized and the unrecognized.
Michael Gayk
Combining the tradition of decorative craft with current technology, Michael Gayk uses jewelry and sculpture to redefine the structure of the human body both functionally and symbolically. Inspired by the subtle parts of the human form, internal organs and circulatory systems, Gayk explores digital manufacturing technologies that can alter the physiology of the human body. He examines how to access to these same technologies becomes popularized and a part of public discourse.