Spring Break 2024:  Eclipsing the Occult

On view September 4th - 9th, 2024

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Both Arcilesi and Evans bring the uncanny, the deceptively familiar and the unknown to the unflinching gaze of the viewer in Eclipsing the Occult by surveying a range of juxtaposed imagery. Buildings and their interiors, landscapes, animals, and urban forms merge and explode from the picture plane: transcending institutionally defined religious or sacred places. Approximately six pieces by both artists will inhabit a dimmed blue hued room with spotlights mimicking gothic arches and lighting the paintings- a nod to the interior/exterior theme of the fair and the confusion of Art Deco dreamscapes such as the film set of ‘Metropolis.’ A pair of clergy chairs sit in the middle of the room, further heightening the dissonance and psychological tension of this explosive interior space.