Virginia Yount
Unsustainable Attainment
October 2 - November 11, 2010
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 2, 7 to 9pm
Yount's work describes imaginary architectures and landscapes comprised of such things as anxious piles of clutter, unread books, graffiti-covered land, discarded lottery tickets, paint piles, and the gathered remnants of a struggling society.
Simultaneously a vast, empty, lonely American landscape and an intimate and obsessively arranged space, Yount's paintings peer in and zoom out, shifting perspective. A hippie commune dome made from the artists own collection of unread books, a new-age beachhouse filled with prisms and paperweights, a copse of graffiti-covered trees spewing 'emotion' under watchful surveillance are some of the images that populate this world.
In addition to the paintings, Yount will present "Throw Cash into the Wind" a collection of several architectural structures arranged on a precarious floating trash-island environment. Meant to signify a kind of wishing fountain, her ecosystem takes on the question of a sustainable society based on the principals of excessive consumption and waste.
Through images of crisis and escapism, Yount investigates sustainability and failure to adapt to unstable and fast-changing surroundings. Environmental and economic collapse, surveillance/self-obsession, anxiety and hoarding/collecting are all a part of her works' conceptual and socio-political concerns
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