size variable | hand-cut paper with acrylic, glitter, aluminum powder | 2016 | Solo Exhibition | Nancy Toomey Fine Art, Minnesota Street Project | San Francisco
Silver Sun Afterglow transforms the gallery using hand-cut paper in a range of painted color patterns and effects. The intricately cut paper silhouettes become a hybrid of natural and synthetic form — a loosely-faceted environment evolving within a fantastical trajectory. The exhibition responds to my obsession with post-apocalyptic sentiments, specifically my current disillusionment with water resources.
The installation takes shape through an array of cut-paper formations: ceiling-hung conglomerations, site-specific wall reliefs, and interrelated framed works. Silver Sun Afterglow is an irrepressible tangle of life, a hybrid-world twisting and clinging to its sterile confines: a fractured landscape in the natural process of reconfiguration.