May 13 – June 4, 2010
Opening Reception Thursday May 13, 2010, 6-9 pm
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Drawing on symbolism collected from history, science, superstition, and literature, Rebecca Gilbert has created layered woodcuts, translucent glue engravings, and an installation composed of hundreds of tiny, delicate print sculptures in an exhibition entitled Raised Bed Fortune Patch. Gilbert's work is characterized by a methodical technical approach to art-making, a deliberately sparing use of color, and a down-to-earth recognition of her own primal cravings.

Raised Bed Fortune Patch is about those moments when everything is just right -- and the bittersweet awareness that such moments are fleeting. It's about trying to divine the future, and the pitfalls of trying to control one's fate rather than simply experiencing it.

Raised Bed Fortune Patch is about desire and change; hope and disappointment; working hard and clinging fiercely to optimism. It's about looking inside yourself at what you have, what you are, and what you want, and then looking back out and trying to see those same attributes and desires in the world. It's about living each day in pursuit of wholeness in spite of fear.

Raised Bed Fortune Patch is about the basics.