Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Sundowning, (detail), Site-Specific Video Installation, 2024, Graphite, acrylic filament, dichroic film, lens, metal, ink, fiber, string, and light

Video Documentation by Sue Murad

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ON VIEW NOW @ Lamont Gallery 


THROUGH LINE

September 25 - November 23 2024


Works by Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Carly Glovinski, Lynne Harlow, Rachel Perry, Patricia Rangel, and August Ventimiglia


THROUGH LINE celebrates basic mark-making as a foundation for the remarkable. Each of the six artists on view explores line through the lens of their distinct practices and mediums, ranging from marker to string, chalk, and even dirt! Together, they apply their shared interest in using lines as the basis for their work to boldly illustrate how understated, rudimentary marks can be explored more deeply. Collectively, the artworks on view act as tributes to the mark, celebrating the multitude of ways lines can be made, manipulated, and made monumental. In dialogue with one another, thematic commonalities or through lines between the works emerge and bring the exhibition into focus.


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A state of confusion that occurs in the late afternoon and lasts into the night. Can cause various behaviors, such as confusion, anxiety, pacing, or wandering.

.... In Sundowning, DiRico explores line as light by entangling projection, fiber, graphite, Mylar, and acrylic lenses. The totality of the installation is a haptic, experiential space where the viewer oscillates between states of observation and action. As a result, bodily movement becomes essential in the work, placing the viewer at the threshold of disorienting, complex beauty.
DiRico guides the viewer through the stages of encounter, detection, analysis, and revelation. Are you looking at string? Or the likeness of string? Light shines from the projector, but it also bounces from lens to lens creating a kind of magical choreography that enmeshes physical material with hand-drawn gesture. Shreds of Mylar and tulle intersect a network of lines, some hand drawn while others are literal strings, slipping in and out of focus against a projection that shivers as it shimmers. Light darts from wall to wall, creating an almost unearthly or celestial landscape that enchants as it spellbinds.

-Pamela Meadows

Gallery Director & Curator | Lamont Gallery


Artwork courtesy of the artist.    ©Katherine Mitchell DiRico. 


Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Sundowning, (detail), Site-Specific Video Installation, 2024, Graphite, acrylic filament, dichroic film, lens, metal, ink, fiber, string, and light

Video Documentation by Sue Murad

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Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Sundowning, (detail), Site-Specific Video Installation, 2024, Graphite, acrylic filament, dichroic film, lens, metal, ink, fiber, string, and light

Video Documentation by Sue Murad

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Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Sundowning, (detail), Site-Specific Video Installation, 2024, Graphite, acrylic filament, dichroic film, lens, metal, ink, fiber, string, and light

Video Documentation by Sue Murad

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Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Sundowning, (detail), Site-Specific Video Installation, 2024, Graphite, acrylic filament, dichroic film, lens, metal, ink, fiber, string, and light


Artwork photos by Peter Morse

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Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Sundowning, (detail), Site-Specific Video Installation, 2024, Graphite, acrylic filament, dichroic film, lens, metal, ink, fiber, string, and light


Artwork photos by Peter Morse

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Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Sundowning, (detail), Site-Specific Video Installation, 2024, Graphite, acrylic filament, dichroic film, lens, metal, ink, fiber, string, and light

Video documentation by Stacey Durand

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