Arts Center at Duck Creek: ‘Pam Brown: Bound by Wire & Time’ + ‘Second Nature’ Group Exhib / Opens 8.22nd

Two Exhibits Open Saturday, August 22, 2016

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Second Nature: A Group Exhibition

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The Arts Center at Duck Creek has announced that Second Nature: A group exhibition featuring Felix Davey, Francine Fleischer, Andy Harris, Elisa Jensen, Kate Salke, and Charles Yoder will be on display in the John Little Barn from August 22^nd through September 27^th with an opening reception on August 22 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Second Nature is a group exhibition exploring the landscapes we have shaped, and the wilderness that shapes our lives, featuring artists; Felix Davey, Francine Fleischer, Andy Harris, Elisa Jensen, Kate Salke and Charles Yoder.

The show brings together a group of artists who find meaning in nature’s quieter registers, the overlooked, and the close at hand.

The works in this exhibition share a sustained attention to the natural world, its seasonal shifts, and its quiet persistence in our day-to-day lives, rather than its picturesque qualities.

Duck Creek’s John Little Barn with its weathered timbers, wide plank floors, and open rafters carry the history of agricultural life on the East End. To encounter artworks here, surrounded by the property’s meadow and mature trees, is to experience creativity as something continuous with the world outside, not separate from it.

Image left: Flowers in Thorns by Andy Harris

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Pam Brown: Bound by Wire and Time

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The Arts Center at Duck Creek has announced a solo exhibition by Pam Brown, Bound by Wire and Time, will be on display in the Little Gallery from August 22^nd through September 27^th, with an opening reception on August 22 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Artist Pam Brown constructs skeletal, artifact-like sculptures that are built from wire, sheet metal, and salvaged materials. Inspired by wildlife, extinction, and American history, the forms reference animal and human anatomy. Delicate and sometimes whimsical, they utilize positive and negative space to allow light and air through their open structures.

Her process is deliberate and painstaking. Shapes are cut from sheet metal with scissors and assembled or “darned” together using sewing techniques, with metal and wire standing in for fabric and thread. This approach consciously evokes both domestic craft traditions and early industrial manufacturing, re-contextualizing gendered labor as something corporeal and emblematic, distinct from the heavy-handed conventions of traditional sculpture.

Image Left: Wallflower by Pam Brown

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PAM BROWN

Pam Brown is a sculptor based in Stony Brook, New York, whose work spans large-scale public installation and intimate tabletop and wall pieces rooted in American history and the natural world. Educated at Alfred University, the Maryland Institute of Art, and Rutgers University, she has been awarded fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her public sculpture has been exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park, Chesterwood Preservation, and institutions across the Northeast, while her studio practice continues to explore urgent themes of deforestation, extinction, and the fragile relationship between politics and the environment.

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THE ARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK:

The Arts Center at Duck Creek is a dynamic hub for contemporary art and cultural exchange on Long Island’s East End. Set on a historic property in Springs, New York, the center champions innovative artistic practices through a diverse program of exhibitions, performances, and interdisciplinary events. By bringing together leading and emerging voices across disciplines, Duck Creek fosters dialogue, experimentation, and community engagement in a uniquely inspiring natural and architectural setting.

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