IN SUSPENSION gallery exhibition to begin in February

WIMBERLEY — Central Texas nonprofit projectART presents IN SUSPENSION: A Conversation Between Land and Sky, a gallery exhibition that will be on display at ARTSPACE in Wimberley beginning Feb. 13.

When selecting art to include in this exhibit, projectART board member Heather Carter and advisory board member Jules Buck Jones were hoping to focus on landscapes, but from a different perspective, read a news release.

“We wanted the land work to be reminiscent of maps, looking straight down onto the land from this suspended space above and we wanted the sky work to have this same quality of almost laying down and staring up at the sky and clouds,” said Carter. “It was really born out of the idea of moving beyond the traditional landscape show and into a more contemporary take. [There are no] horizon lines in either of their works; they each focus entirely on the up and down, the gas or the solid, what we can touch and what we can't. At the same time they are both viewing their subjects from this shared suspended space in the middle.”

Austin-based artists Shannon Faseler and Shawn Camp will be featured in IN SUSPENSION, each providing six large pieces that complement each other in size and visual weight.

The pieces Camp is contributing to the exhibit can be described as “[exploring] the boundaries between the physical and the transcendent,” said the release. With his work, Camp attempts to bring about a feeling of being suspended between these two nebulous spaces–real and conceptual.

“These paintings try to articulate that reality through imagery that infers rather than clarifies. They're purposefully subtle and slightly confusing–something, like when you have a word or idea at the tip of your tongue and can't quite call it to mind. I think of my paintings as sort of an oscillation, or suspension, between the physical matter of the paint and the transcendent light that forms what we see,” said Camp.

projectART’s vision is to bring people together to create community through art. Its hope is that through thought-provoking exhibits such as IN SUSPENSION, discourse about the world and humanity’s effects on it will come to the surface.

IN SUSPENSION will commence with an opening reception  from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13 at ARTSPACE and will be on view until April 18.