Michael Hardesty
dal 21/6/2007 al 14/9/2007
Segnalato da
21/6/2007
Michael Hardesty
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
Feedback
Feedback
Wood Street Galleries, a project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, has
recently commissioned new work by artist Michael Hardesty, titled
'Feedback'; which will be featured in the new exhibition titled
'Echo' opening at Wood Street Galleries, Friday, June 22,
through Saturday, September 15, 2007. Also, on exhibit will be two
installations by Michael Hardesty: 'Offering'; and
'Was'
'Michael Hardesty's environments investigate the mysteries of
perception, challenging our sense of our physical selves' writes
curator Murray Horne, who had organized a show of Mr. Hardesty's
installations in 1991 as part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival.
'The technological aspects of his work dissolve into sensual cues
which elicit questions of where, what, why, and how, sometimes inducing a
meditative reverie. In response to his work, we shift from the material to
the metaphysical'
Michael Hardesty was born in 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky. His early study
in art was in the academic forms of drawing and painting, rendering still
lifes, figuration. 'It taught me the fundamentals...how to 'see.' For
that, I'm eternally grateful,' he says.
A graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, Hardesty has worked in
painting, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Hardesty furthered his
studies from 1974 - 1975 at London's Central School of Art and Design,
receiving a diploma in printmaking.
'One has to marvel at Hardesty's ability to grab and hold his
audience for optimal effect using any technology within his grasp.
Hardesty's art is always the "What if...," an open-ended
invitation into a universe where anything seems possible' writes
Louis Zona, Executive Director of the Butler Institute of American Art.
Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street - Pittsburgh