Exhibition Dates: October 6 – October 27, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 6 from 6 – 9 pm (in conjunction with “Art for Arts’ Sake”)
Gallery Location: 434 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm
Contact Info: 504.522.1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of sculpture by Lin Emery. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger@434, located at 434 Julia Street, from October 6 – October 27, 2012. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist in attendance, Saturday, October 6 from 6-9 pm in conjunction with “Art for Arts’ Sake.”
This exhibition of new work features pedestal and large-scale kinetic sculptures, as well as a water-activated fountain and theater installation. The elements in Lin Emery’s work continue to be derived from nature and she borrows natural elements – water, wind, magnets – to set them in motion. Besides searching the natural world, she explores history to create theater installations suggested by past worlds. The model for the “Mouth of Hell”, included in this exhibition, is derived from medieval images.
The rhythms in her sculptures are influenced by infinite variables: the point of balance, the normal frequency of each form, and the interruption of the counterpoise. The artist juggles, juxtaposes and adjusts to achieve the dance or pantomime that she wants. Lin Emery feels that ultimately the sculpture takes over and invents an excitement of its own.
Emery says, “Sculpture is living, it’s vital, it’s changeable. Even when you walk around it, it can be something different. Drawing is a reflection and coordinating eye and hand, but sculpture is your mind and an idea.”
Emery has exhibited throughout the United States as well as in England, Japan, Australia, Germany and France. In 1996 Emery had an acclaimed comprehensive retrospective exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art. In 1997 she completed an immense abstract kinetic sculpture for placement in Osaka, Japan and was awarded the Grand Prize for Public Sculpture in Japan. Emery also installed a major sculpture in the Zen Garden of the Hohen-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan. In Louisiana, her public commissions can be seen throughout the state at sites including the Louisiana State Library in Baton Rouge, Knight Oil Tools and The Neurological Hospital in Lafayette, The Renaissance Arts Hotel and the Inter-Continental Hotel in New Orleans. Emery is the 2012 Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Opus Award honoree.
Philip Palmedo’s 2012 book Lin Emery is available at the gallery.