A Stark Project: Installation Art | Berkeley

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Announcing the opening of A Stark Project, a new exhibition space dedicated exclusively to installation art, launching July 23, 2016.

Installation art is a construction or assemblage usually designed for a specific place and for a temporary period of time. Since few people have space to display installation art in their private homes, each exhibition will feature a small run of affordable multiples.

Blythe’s piece will consist of 100 pairs of life size plaster cast hands reaching upwards from the floor, closely placed together in an 8’ diameter circle. The hands are cast from a model of the artist’s own hands.

Themes in Blythe’s work include displacement, disconnection, loss, longing and desire. In this piece she is emphasizing through repetition of her own hands a gesture of searching, needing and wanting, and most importantly, never giving up no matter what life presents.

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