07/11/2020
Marianne Desmarais opens “gather” this evening at the gallery. Please stop by (with appropriate ppe) for a superb, socially distanced art experience.
“In gather, air-filled packing materials and plastic containers are the starting point for an examination of the logics and breakdown of material culture. Familiar and ubiquitous, these discards have pillowed the objects of our desire in protective isolation and then are expected to simply disappear. Designed for specific function and single use, these anti-forms are proliferating.
Using a synthetic rubber coating I am sequestering plastic detritus and translating its forms and properties. Working with a material that changes state, from viscous liquid to flexible solid, produces a fluidity in the work that yields expansive surface and open forms that alter relationships to gravity, time, and perception.”
www.marianne-desmarais.com
July 11th - Aug 2nd
Staple Goods Gallery
1340 St. Roch Ave.,
Opening 6-9pm