The Dowd Gallery of Fine Arts a SUNY Cortland will have a pair of exhibitions in February of art, including work from an Ithaca artist who focuses on the dream of utopia.
“Parts and Labor” by Mara Baldwin will be displayed Feb. 3 to March 7, with an opening reception Feb. 6 and an artist talk Feb. 20, the gallery has announced.
The exhibit is a collection of multi-disciplinary art, including paper and textiles inspired by the female experience.
“I make work about people without depicting them by scrambling found objects, textures, and highly rendered surfaces to create lonely interiors and blueprints of remnant or newly imagined worlds,” Baldwin writes in her artist statement. “My work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia and asks if a perfect life can include feelings of failure, loneliness and dissatisfaction.”
In conjunction with “Parts and Labor,” “From the Vault” will show works from the SUNY Cortland permanent collection, the gallery reports. The works, selected by Allison DeDominick, are examples from Joan Miro, Michael Heizer and le Corbusier. The nine pieces are examples of abstraction, contrasting with Baldwin’s work.
Among the artists are John Wood, Jim Thorpe, Evan Summer, Kent Rush, Joan Miro, Marini Marino, Le Corbusier, B Kummart, Michael Heizer and Robert Goodnough.
