Surface Tension
by Amanda Thackray
September 3 - October 29, 2021
Artists’ Reception
Friday September 10, 4 – 7 p.m.
(as part of JC Fridays)
Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery
Curated by Curated by Doris Cacoilo
Amanda Thackray’s solo exhibition, Surface Tension, presents the artist’s handmade paper installations, prints and sculpture that comment on plastic pollution and the fragility of the marine environment. The exhibition reflects and distorts the natural world of our oceans inside the gallery space.
Through Thackray’s allegorical environments the exhibition asks the audience to consider the consequences of unnatural materials in our marine ecosystems. She extends the shift into the aquatic world with her paper pulp net pieces, crafting them to resemble fishing nets and plastic material adrift in our oceans. In the artist's installations is an intentional, and somewhat uncomfortable, play between the natural and the unnatural. Her pieces are purposeful symbols of how we can choose to do things differently and create with nature, instead of working against it.
On view in the Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery from September 3–October 29 during gallery hours and by appointment.
For more information on Amanda Thackray’s work please visit ajthackray.com.
In order to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19, face coverings are required in the gallery. The University requires all visitors to complete the CDC’s Self Health Check and sign our Visitor Log Form: njcu.edu/visitorlog.
