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| moderndallas.net Special “Eye” to Watch June Mattingly // contributing art writer Claudia Borgna: Project Installation at Plush Gallery on Dragon Street As her announcement states Claudia a “CentralTrak artist exhibits at Plush Gallery;” actually, Jim and I found her at Centraltrak in her studio. It would take a lot of determination for someone NOT to give this exuberant British native a show. She is now “cracking into” her next two pieces for her upcoming at UTD curated by Greg Metz. |
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| “By putting the bag in artistic context I would like to elevate it to another dimension that takes it away from the idea of the banal and obvious and for an instant, transforms it into a poetic object.” Both installations use discarded bags to address our refusal to reduce, reuse and/or recycle plastic (and paper) grocery bags coupled with an urgent need for us all to be responsible to treat the environment with utmost respect. “Hope within annihilation: handpicked and not for sale” is the title for the piece with the pine tree while the other one sounds equally cryptic but compelling, “Co-evolutionary extinction: sketch for a fairy tale.” |
| Randall Garrett’s original “experimental” gallery closed in “seeming finality” in 2007 only to reopen full of curatorial projects in mind for 2011 situated now in a new space in the Design District on Dragon Street in Corky Cunningham Architects’ studio. This is the fourth applauded exhibition of Plush’s “provocative blend of street level energy and cutting edge artwork.” Claudia’s curriculum vitae are very cosmopolitan not limited to her upper level education and exhibitions across the pond in the UK and Europe. Just as extraordinary is her artistic support from: the Royal British Society of Sculptors award, American Pritzker Foundation, Jackson Pollock/Lee Krasner grant, and Joan Mitchell award. “I find plastic bags interesting because of their remarkable contradictory qualities. Plastic bags are in fact, worthless and useful, disposable and recyclable, flimsy and strong, ephemeral and eternal, but above all they are universal.” “Like my performances the plastic bags are a human and therefore natural appendix of man. Because one could argue that whatever is man-made is natural is an unstable and unreliable human construction ruled by social and cultural needs.” |
| “I have chosen to materialize my ideas through the form of installation because in this way I find I can better express the concept of environment, space, time and duration. I like my installation to be large and give a sense of multitude and mass in mass-production, to be invasive by taking over space to the point of suffocation, and to be in constant evolution and therefore changeable.” . |
| plush gallery 918 Dragon Street • Dallas TX 75207 • plushgallery.com • 214-915-0925 gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday 12-5 pm and by appointment |
