Still Waters, a multi-media exhibition by Catherine Forster,
explores the multifaceted components of water, a substance we are always in fear of having too much of or too little. Still Waters includes video, sound, paintings, and large-scale inkjet print collages, which encase the gallery’s 19th century steel columns.
Forster pushes and pulls the distinctions and contradictions we make between the natural and the mediated. The “H2O” painting series is physical and personal, the aluminum columns “Whispering Pause”, “Salty Wine” and “Curdled Tango”, are lush yet surface-less and unreachable. They reflect the plush mediated presentations we are used too, but actually possess little resemblance to the natural world. They represent both what we want and what we are missing. The videos H2O and Swallow are both opposites and compliments, H2Ocelebrates the union of water and light, while Swallow explores its physicality and sheer power.
Link:
http://www.catforster.com/StillWaters.html
Address:
The Rymer Gallery
233 5th Ave N
Nashville, Tennessee 37219
Catherine Forster is an artist, and independent curator based in the Chicago area. She received an M.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her artwork has been shown at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Chicago, Merwin Gallery Illinois Wesleyan University, Freewaves, City of Louisville Colorado Sculpture Garden, Carnegie Art Museum, South Bend Regional Art Museum, Flint Institute of Art, Orange County Contemporary Art Center, Exit Art (NY), Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania, to name a few. Films by Forster have been screened at the Sao Paul International Short Film Festival, East LA Intl film Festival, Chicago REEL short film Festival, the Other Venice film Festival, CA, Echotrope New Media Arts Festival (Omaha), Simultan Media Arts Festival (Romania), Echo Park Film Center (LA), Magmart Film Festival Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum (Italy), Directors Lounge (Berlin), and San Diego International Women Film Festival. Forster is also the founder and director of a non-profit nomadic new media art space, the LiveBox Gallery.
Gloria Sutton