Location
Catskill Art Society will present “Light and Dark”, featuring the work of Mac Adams,
Adam Crosson, Kaytea Petro, Carolina Rubio MacWright, and Yoav Ruda at the
CAS Art Center at 48 Main St. Livingston Manor, NY.
Mac Adams creates figurative shadows out of mundane groupings of objects.
Remarkable and unexpected, these temporal, Rorschach like images invite both
speculation and meditation, evoking a presence both fearful and humorous. His art challenges
our visual literacy as the presence of light among seemingly unrelated objects generates
another layer to the visual message. Adams work is in over 40 public museum collections,
including and not limited to, MoMA, NY, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Musee
National D'Art Modern, and Center Pompidou, Paris, France.
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Adam Crosson’s studio practice is an excavation into the post-industrial relics of
the Mississippi River’s deltaic and alluvial regions. Crosson manipulates
commercial signs exposing its internal organs and creating photographs from
sign ruins that he has converted to cameras. His relationship with industrial
materials is direct, as are his referents.
The work of Kaytea Petro addresses the timely issue of police violence in the
United States. Acknowledging that as an artist she is powerless to change
government structures and practices that result in the untimely deaths of
innocent people, through her work she seeks to spark a conversation that might
enhance police crisis training and change gun policy in this country.
Carolina Rubio MacWright grew up during the Colombian conflict where violence
permeated her city, and a culture of fear and hate repressed creative expression.
Her work makes sense of fear and the loss of freedom so many immigrants and
refugees face, offering viewers insight that will allow them to consider the
injustices that continue today.
Yoav Ruda sees contemporary art as an open horizon, free of boundaries and
limitations. His work mixes still photography, film, new media, written word,
samples, sound art and poetry into a single, unified new art form. The work refers
to the development of art as an evolutionary process, with that evolution as the
key principle of the development of art, culture, science and life itself.
Gallery hours at the CAS Arts Center are Thursday – Saturday 11am–6pm,
Sunday 11am-3pm, and Monday 11am-6pm. The CAS Arts Center is wheelchair
accessible.
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