Garage Gallery Beacon

07/16/2024

11/06/2023

Thank you to all our artists and visitors in 2023! We are closed for a winter break and will reopen in April 2024.

09/01/2023

07/30/2023

Join us for the August 12th opening of "What Is Lost?" at Garage Gallery.

"What Is Lost?"
Fern Apfel
& Amy Becker

Opening Reception
August 12th, 4–7pm

August 12–27, SAT/SUN 1–5 pm

We’ve become inured to the rapid pace of technological change—to the relentless overwriting of the old with the new. Our culture and economy have come to depend on discarding what is for what could be. We are addicted to the rush of new devices and features.

Fern Apfel and Amy Becker confront us with the remains of wired telephones and handwritten letters—two archaic modes of communication that have faded away in the face of wireless phones and digital applications. But while cell phones, email, texting, and social media have freed us from limitations of place, reach, speed, frequency, memory, and dexterity, much has been lost.

The work of these artists reminds us that something is lost when we remove the constraints of communication. That unlimited bandwidth eliminates the need to consider our words. That asynchronous communications make it easier to exchange information but kill real connection. That being freed from fixed locations disconnects us from communities. That the cost of making things by hand or speaking directly to others is small compared to the value of beautiful, personal, and direct human connection.

06/29/2023

Please join us for the Summer Opening of Garage Gallery's Sculpture Garden—featuring the work of Emil Alzamora, Edward Benavente, Lori Merhige, & Heinrich Spillmann. www.garagegallery.com