LONE STAR COLLEGE-MONTGOMERYNEWS RELEASE
For immediate publication (3/17/08) Contact: Steve Scheffler, (936) 273-7224, or Amy Cooper, (936) 273-7021
Editor's Note: A sample photo from the exhibit is attached with this release.
“Salted Away” Exhibit Set for Matteson-Parrish Gallery
Lone Star College-Montgomery’s Center for the Arts presents the artwork of Kristy Peet and David McClain in an exhibit titled “Salted Away” beginning March 19 through April 11. There will be an opening reception in the Mary Matteson-Parrish Gallery (Building D) on Tuesday, March 25 from 12-2 p.m. “Salted Away” is a combined exhibit of works from two artists who found a common theme.
"Our collaborative discussions focused on questions of the meaning of knowledge (epistemology), the writings of Thomas Pynchon and Soren Kierkegaard, and alternative photographic processes, including emulsion lifts,” said both artists in a statement describing their work. “It became obvious, as we talked, that what at first seemed certain and knowable to the one--whether "art" or photography, or their meaning, or purpose—was, in fact, often uncertain and maybe even unknowable to the other. The same conflict manifests itself when the concept of ‘uncertainty’ was carefully examined. It seemed natural, then, to represent this paradoxical inversion of the certain and uncertain graphically by placing our most ‘certain’ ideas, originally intended for the rocks, on the most ephemeral objects we could imagine, in this case helium filled balloons, and vice versa. Polaroid emulsion lifts, the use of rocks and balloons, and installation, rather than traditional means of viewing images, seemed like a perfectly natural and necessary ways for us represent or at least question the uncertainty of certainty."
The exhibit will have a variety of objects with these images and ideas for the viewer to explore and view on different surfaces. Each artist was influenced by the desire to collaborate as photographers, to learn from each other and create this exciting exhibit.
“The process of collaboration was as important to us as the resulting project,” they added. “However, we soon discovered that we have significant and undeniable differences in experience, perspective and approach. Rather than allow these differences to defeat the collaboration, however, we dug deeper. We do not pretend that resolution of certainties and uncertainties is ultimately possible through this collaboration, but our effort represents a dialogue more than anything and, as a dialogue, it appears that the inversions are most telling.”The Matteson-Parrish Gallery is a teaching gallery at Lone Star College-Montgomery, and the presentations and artwork provided are free to the community.
Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information regarding the exhibit, call Amy Cooper at (936) 273-7021.
LSC-Montgomery is located at 3200 College Park Drive, one-half mile west of Interstate 45, between Conroe and The Woodlands. For more information about the college, call (936) 273-7000, or visit Montgomery.LoneStar.edu.
Lone Star College System consists of five colleges, including CyFair, Kingwood, Montgomery, North Harris, and Tomball, six centers and Lone Star College-University Center. With 49,250 students, it is the largest college system in the Houston area, and third largest community college district in Texas. For more information, visit www.LoneStar.edu. ###