April 23 - May 22

Opening Artist Reception: Friday, April 23from 5:30 - 8:30 pm

New York artist Jason Hackenwerth creates colorful sumptuous sculptures that at once seem alien, botanical and reminiscent of sea creatures. As some sculptors seek media with a sense of permanence like stone and metal, Hackenwerth chooses to instead work with media that is filled with breath and is changes with time until ultimately it shrinks and shrivels away. Hackenwerth creates his sculptures with balloons.  The artist states “I'm filling them. The air inside is slipping out. It's a great metaphor for our own lives." His sculptures change over the course of their exhibition morphing from hearty and voluptuous to shrunken and aged, "a perfect combination of sadness and joy."

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