Posted on September 7th, 2022 by by mbacker

Roslyn Dupre’s Savage Bayou

There is a sensory richness to the work of Roslyn Dupre. The varied textures of her work call out to our sense of touch. Woven denim, coiled Spanish moss, shiny graphite, cotton canvas, the pages of a book. Beyond the sensory richness, there are powerful ideas within the work. Dupre explores the ideas of home, death, pattern, family, identity, and abstraction.

Posted on August 31st, 2022 by by mbacker

The Forest

The Forest is an immersive installation by T.C. Anderson and Mari Omori. As Omori writes, it is a reexamination of “the familiar with the unfamiliar for a new experience.” As you enter the gallery, you are surrounded by tea-stained mosquito netting. The netting carries the scent of tea, and the sounds of nature surround you. There are phrases of poetry pinned to and within the netting. You’ll also see a birdcage with writing crafted into a chain, tree stumps, moss, and bark. Much of the writing is placed sideways; other phrases are masked by the netting. The exhibit is an exploration of the idea of combining the normally “solitary experience” of reading with the “collective experience” of viewing art, as noted by Anderson. The phrases in the exhibit are taken from Anderson’s poetry chapbook, also called The Forest. Many phrases speak to dark times in the world’s history as well as Anderson’s personal life. Anderson hopes that the exhibit “will provide viewers with a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel.” The artists invite visitors to respond to the experience in writing and leave the writing in the birdcage, “thus contributing to the density of The Forest,” as noted by Omori.

For more information, please visit the Bosque Gallery.