Simply 7
Stremmel Galleries
June 22 - July 13, 2006

reception Thursday, July 6
5:30-7:30pm
1400 South Virginia Street
Reno, Nevada
775-786-0558

This exhibition represents primarily recent works exploring the desktop computer mouse as icon and object for contemplative production. The works included in this group exhibition at the Stremmel Galleries in Reno represent a return to a process of art making after the catastrophic loss of my entire artist's studio space to flooding this past New Year's Eve.

All of the "Mouse Drawings" made for this showing are re-creations, or better yet, "re-claimations" of works that were destroyed. The new works are subtly different from the lost works both in form and content. The "Mouse Mandala" is a work that I have been engaged in for the past six years. I have been waiting for the opportunity to show this work in a space that would do the work justice. The large space at the Stremmel Galleries seems as thought it were built to feature this piece. This continues to be a work in progress - my intention is to eventually create a finished work of at least 25' in diameter. Click here for artist's text regaring this piece.

The "Buddha Ball" is a new addition to this project - a terra cotta Buddha figure is literally covered with track balls taken from inside the dead mice used in the floor weaving.

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