Lori Goldberg | Poetics of the Discarded
The South Main Gallery presents a solo exhibition by instructor Lori Goldberg that seeks to open a dialogue about our relationship to our environment.
Opening Reception | October 13, 3-6pm
Artist Talk | October 27, 3pm
Within the exhibit, Poetics of the Discarded, we find portraits of objects “en masse” of all that we, as a society, have chosen to discard and disregard. Lori Goldberg’s artworks serve to open a dialogue about our relationship to our environment. These painterly renderings of toppling scrap heaps remind us quietly: that which we discard doesn’t disappear - and it reappears here, a reminder of environmental impact encrypted within a series of lush paintings.
Poetics of the Discarded resurrects the liminal substance of garbage from the after-life of the scrap heaps, and re-contextualizes these scenes by transforming them into culturally valued art-objects (paintings). Refuse sites such as these usually are “out of sight, out of mind,” annexed areas full of banished objects. These are places that we, as a culture, are usually trying to hide and ignore, but in Goldberg’s works they are immortalized and exalted ~ a visual reminder of the ongoing narrative between humans and their environment.
