Angie Bray and Suvan Geer

Featuring the “blueprints” or designs for installation projects by Angie Bray and Suvan Geer, the SCA’s latest show offers us a fascinating peek into the artistic process in its early, if not infantile stage—not infantile, because these sketches and drawings could easily stand alone without further development into the third dimension. Geer’s work for “Ephemera” is not only visually stunning, but her method intriguing: using powdered milk burnt into ash (instead of charcoal) and rubbed into warm beeswax on paper, her soft images of milk bottles, a birdcage, a solitary chair and a silhouetted sewing machine all hearken back to her childhood memories, focusing on items that have or soon will become obsolete. Submerging herself deeper into that youthful, dreamy realm, her abstracts of soft spheres lazing on top of each other might recall a pack of deflating party balloons or the view from inside a mother’s womb. Bray’s work in “Space and Motion Collaboration” is more about transition, interaction and journey, and her small, panoramic sheets of acetate hashed by sticks and stones dipped in Sumi India ink appear to be endless landscapes of prickly brush, barges seeking a reedy river shore or even the tracks left by some small creature scuttling around on a midday forage. Eventually, Geer and Bray translate these intricate and compact drawings into intimate and expansive installations (respectively) playing their uncanny perceptions up against light and shadow in remembrance of a world that is constantly in motion.
 

 

Angie Bray’s “Space and Motion Collaboration,” Suvan Geer’s “Ephemera” at the SCA Project Gallery, 281 S. Thomas St., Pomona; www.scagallery.com. Thurs-Sat, noon-4PM. Artist reception Aug. 29, 6-9PM. Thru Aug. 31. Free.

 

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