Field Studies
Anne Percoco

GALLERY II

June 22- July 16, 2011

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 23, 6:00- 8pm

In her first solo exhibition in New York, Percoco aggregates found representations of nature to create composite landscapes and faux natural formations. She also presents plans for a related public project. In Field Studies, a central fabric sculpture mimics a heap of autumn leaves. The leaves have been gathered from printed fabrics of diverse textures, colors, and graphic styles, celebrating the use of nature as a decorative motif. This over-sized beanbag chair functions both as a nest in which one can immerse oneself in fake foliage and as seating for gallery visitors.In addition, Percoco cut hundreds of images of trees from New York area phone books ads and assembled them into landscape collages. These forested vistas can be seen as subliminal natural landscapes of New York. Percoco uses a shifting perspective to describe the changing viewpoint we experience while moving through a landscape.

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