fragmented recall

Ground Floor Contemporary is pleased to present Fragmented Recall, an exhibition featuring new work by Sara Garden Armstrong and Barbara Hirschowitz.  Both artists are working with recollected imagery using chance, change and encounter.

 Join us for the Opening Reception on Thursday, June 7, 2018 from 5 – 7:30 pm.  

The gallery is open on Sundays from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm and will include the following events:

June 10 at 2:00 pm                

Artist talks facilitated by Cumbee Tyndal

June 17 at  2:00 pm   

Discussion: How does an artist get a global reach?

June 24 at 2:00 pm     

Discussion: Promoting the Visual Arts in Birmingham

Sara Garden Armstrong is a visual artist who works in a myriad of directions and scales, from atrium sculpture to small artist books. This body of work involves the mirroring of changing organic processes.

The concerns of the work are fundamental: control / loss of control, fluidity / presence, and change / exploration.  All rely on the properties of materials as they explore shifts of meaning.  The work uses transparency, mapping, and layering. With the drawings and paintings, this calligraphy forms a language, layering the past and the present.

Barbara Hirschowitz is a painter known for her confident, colorful layers used to describe hybrid spaces- an unknown place rendered in a familiar manner, often prompting the viewer to question if they might recognize it from their own past. Using paint, canvas, and paper, her work visualizes a history of living moments, merging the present and past, the recognized and the unknown.  Her art was described in an article by James R.Nelson as “offer[ing] just enough visual imagery to identify and trigger viewer response in a reflective way.”

Ground Floor Contemporary is an art gallery committed to promoting and expanding the visual arts scene in the greater Birmingham area. The gallery space is open to the public from 1pm to 4pm on Sundays and by appointment. It is located at 111 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd S, Birmingham, AL 35233.

Please visit http://groundfloorcontemporary.com for more information.