Opening tonight, August 12, 2010 – 6-11 pm and continuing through September 4, 2010, Zack Bent’s new mixed-media installation at Vermillion Art Gallery, Fort Branch.
This project is supported by 4Culture’s Individual Artist Projects and continues the tradition of his previous series at Gallery4Culture, Buffalo Trace, where he and his family “appropriated scouting as a tribal play frame.” Whereas his previous exhibition centered on social responsibility toward the conservation and preservation of nature while referencing the Boy Scouts of America, Zack describes Fort Branch as “less occupied with human figures in relationship to one another and more with the trace of their presence.”
“In this series,” Zack says, “many of the works walk the line between play and catastrophe in the face of an unwieldy natural order. The exhibit is filled with a series of artifacts, including a full-scale dilapidated Lincoln Log cabin, drawing on the nearly 100-year-old toy designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son John during the Progressive Era.”
Photo: © 2010 Zack Bent, On Location
