March 1-April 7, 1990
Nancy Elkins, March 1990
The works of these artists explore the nature of beauty in its particular association with the concepts of time, change and decay. The work is intensely personal yet open-ended, often evoking a feeling of melancholy and loss. Nancy Elkins’ narrative dramas explore the great questions of Western religion and mysticism: body and soul, death and resurrection. David Arsenburg utilizes found objects in his refined and spare constructions which focus on history and memory. Robert Martens has chosen as his media the refuse of contemporary civilization: architectural debris from demolition sites, seawashed objects from our beaches, plastic flowers from our cemeteries.
Paul Jackson is a Boston writer, critic, and independent curator.