Marcy Adzich's recent practice involves developing a poetic visual language that takes the idea of the "Object" as its subject. Her working methodology brings together diverse lines of research surrounding the Object--social and cultural displays, historical still-life painting, and the perceptual and contextual transformation of various landscapes.
Although Adzich primarily works in sculpture and installation, in Dawson the artist will be working on a series of paintings towards some later sculptural work. Under the thematic rubric of "a landscape stares back," Adzich will spend four weeks undertaking visual experiments that reconfigure and combine rural, urban and imaginary landscapes into a series of Landscape Objects that at times recall Wardian Cases and 19th century Cabinets of Curiosity, while casting a critical eye on the role of the human gaze on our conceptions of landscape itself.
