2/10 Fri, 7-9 pm – Opening Reception for Ordo naturalis featuring new work from Anne Cavanaugh and Kyle Larabee
It’s the natural order of things for us to analyze time, to impose structure onto our memories. In recognition of this, 13FOREST Gallery presents Ordo naturalis, an exhibition of new and recent ephemeral work by Massachusetts artists Anne Cavanaugh and Kyle Larabee.
Reorganizing the very plant life that shares our cyclical nature, Cavanaugh and Larabee restructure organic materials into intimate heirlooms and calendars that commemorate recollections – both personal and collective.
Anne Cavanaugh breathes a new essence into the dried materials she plucks from the earth. With a meticulous hand Cavanaugh creates intricate patterns with flowers, seeds and leaves. Employing the tactile and luminous characteristics of wax, her encaustic pieces preserve these exacting forms, which echo both the natural and manmade. In her new works, Cavanaugh captures the delicateness of a lace heirloom. Here each flowing stitch is stilled and becomes part of the artist’s emotional response to memory.
Kyle Larabee explores two fundamental fixations: a deep curiosity about the natural world, and an innate discomfort with the relentless passage of time. He pursues these interests using a rigorous, almost scientific method of experimentation and abstraction to test and transform common aspects of our environment. Often, his work involves the measurement of time and the marking of highly personal milestones in unique and surprising ways. Each endeavor sharpens his understanding of his place in the world and aids in the formation of some new question to ask about it.
