Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Review: Shannon Landis Hansen and Christine Sauer at LeMieux Galleries
Posted by D. Eric Bookhardt on Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:08 PM
For instance, "Without a Net" is a fully functional reprise of one of those fabulous '50s suburban kitsch lamps taken to diabolical extremes with masked, insanely contorted ballet dancers surrounded by a maze of ceramic shards, creepy clowns and fairytale figures in manic, hallucinatory clusters. Likewise, her "Red Chair" evokes a freakout at a Chinatown souvenir factory with ceramic mandarins, dragons and the like sprouting from crimson brocade on an actual chair that all but dares you to sit on it. More arts-for-arts-sake is "A Shattering Note" as ceramic fragments appear reworked into a wacko wall sculpture that takes iconic kitsch to a Shangri-La level of cosmic irony where Wedgewood meets John Waters. Impressive stuff.
Christine Sauer's rather cellular looking fabric constructions are iconic in their own quiet way, with works in her "Cluster" series suggesting microscopic blowups of overlapping cell structures rendered as intricately stitched tapestries. The colors and needlework recall Central and Eastern European —especially Russian (think decorated Easter eggs) — folk arts, with hints of Native American bead work, but the cellular patterns appear universal, and there is an almost metaphysical sensibility of the micro and the macro, the earthly and the cosmic. The results are quietly, if intricately, haunting, making for an auspicious return of Sauer to the Julia Street gallery scene.
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"Breaking Muse": Ceramic Assemblages by Shannon Landis Hansen
"Textile Constructions": Fabric Art by Christine Sauer
Through July 30
LeMieux Galleries, 332 Julia St., 522-5988
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