Corpus Perspicuus: Body Transparent

THEKLA HAMMOND

Thekla Hammond’s installation is a narrative about the experience of separation and connection. Human shapes, in motion or still, explore our physical and emotional experience and allow us to recognize our selves and each other. Suspended rotation acrylic panels reflect multiple transparent images, layering the visual experience in a way that is analogous to the building of emotional experience. Augmenting the visual, an a capella quartet will sing, musically, coming together finally in sync. The viewer can feel, see and hear separation and connection.

CHERYL CALLERI

Microscoptic human sensory receptors, their structure and physiology, are the focus of Cheryl Calleri’s work. She begins in scientific fact and then follows her imagination as she gives visual expression to unseen sensory experience and the dynamic forces at work within the nervous system. Her constructions are built by laminating multiple painted acrylic sheets. In the process, acrylic cement mixes with the paint to create images that resemble enlarged cross-sections of cell tissue laminated between glass. The forms and the surfaces combine to express the emergent and transitory nature of life.

TOBIN KELLER

Expanding the definition of portraiture, Tobin Keller examines both the physical and emotional layers of his subjects. His large-scale multi-layered drawings on Plexiglas incorporate the traditional techniques of line and mark making with experimental tools and materials. The current work includes digital transparencies, hair and monofilament. His most recent pieces use acrylic cabachons to push the images into distortion and magnification, elaborating upon the meaning of layers and expanding the visual experience of seeing into the personality, experiencing the multi-sided nature of life.