Liv Aanrud – Peter Acheson – Hannah Barnes – Sean Foley – Ben LaRocco – Chris Martin – Craig Olson – Jamie Powel – Josh Welker
Curated by Suzanne Dittenber
November 14 – December 12, 2014
” Thoreau said “Civilization is an orchard apple, nature is a crab apple”. Everything in the Universe is natural, but not everything is wild. The archetype of the trickster is wild. It is instinct rooted in our animal selves, prior to layers of language and other skills of civilization such as gardening and tending goats inside fences. Perhaps civilization, with city walls, economies, class structures, universities and museums can be viewed as languageʼs work in the world: classifying, categorizing, subdividing, organizing. Language is the cart, but what of the horse? Trickster is always here. As evidenced by its continuous reoccurrence throughout history, it is a permanent structure of the world psyche. It is coupled with its polarity, systems theory, in dynamic equilibrium like poles of a magnet. Hermes/Apollo; moon/ sun; wild/domesticated. So it is always present with its own wild energy. Not a strictly human creation.” -Peter Acheson
Metcalf Gallery 