Tools. We take them for granted. The machine-shop smell of the hardware store with its rows of odd-shaped hammers and axe heads as elegant as Cycladic sculptures. Or the raw energy of the construction site, massive excavators chewing up the earth like prehistoric creatures, carpenters throwing up walls, electricians unspooling wire.
We may use our minds to translate and understand the world at large. But it is through our hands we experience its physicality and through our tools we often make sense of it. This exhibition explores the beauty and power and, yes, even the whimsy of everyday tools by using them in assemblages or modified them with various media. By placing them center stage, the artists presented here have given them meaning and emotional presence far beyond their everyday appeal.
Participating Artists: Bob Brady, Noa Charuvi, Kate Dodd, David Duskin, Gwyneth Leech, Greg Leshé, James Morris, Charles Stinson, Bill Westheimer
