August 21–October 19, 2014
Reception and Artist Talk September 26, 6:30–8 pm
An exhibition of drawings by artist Jane Rainwater. The drawings disclosed our culture’s relationship with violence by masking it within the beauty of nature. All the drawings were seductively constructed with familiar subject matter and high contrast shapes in black and white.
Rainwater’s images historically reference classical nature illustrations, Victorian silhouettes, wallpaper and prints of natural history. However, her images are constructed out of the machinery of death: axes, scimitars, guns, grenades, and other weaponry and symbols of war. As a result of this “drawing mash-up,” she asks us to question our measured response to violence and the business of violence. The images challenge our attraction to beautiful things and the darker truth of our culture.
