TORY FAIR
Block Bloom
on view: APRIL 5 - MAY 3, 2008
Opening Reception: April 5, 6 - 8 pm
LAMONTAGNE GALLERY is pleased to announce a new exhibition by TORY FAIR.
In this April exhibition, Block Bloom, Tory Fair's work explores voluminous materials with an emphasis in cast rubber. Sculpture with intent undeniably rugged in form, yet floppy in spirit. This narrative is developed through translating the preconceived idea of a decorative and feminine form (lily) into a more crude object. This is achieved through an over flowing of rubber lily stems that stretch but are joined to a masculine block that becomes a permanent root. Although the flowers succumb to the floor, they offer a sense of anticipation and force.
Continuing to play with metaphors from the world of competitive sports into a more personal arena of domestic form, Fair creates borders and lines that define and separate space. These works possess their own wholeness and in turn become more dominant than the space they outline. The decorative, in translation, becomes the dominant.
Tory Fairs' work has been recently exhibited at The Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, The Essex Arts Center, Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), The CUE Foundation (NY), Artist Space (CT), The Mills Gallery and The Artists Foundation (Boston). She has received numerous grants and awards including The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, The Blanch E. Colman Award, Gardner Fellowship, LEF Foundation Grant, The Norman Grant from Brandeis University, and a residency at The MacDowell Colony. Tory Fair currently is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Brandeis University in Waltham and lives and works in Arlington, Massachusetts.