Artist Turns Flea Market Finds into Assemblages in New Kent Show

Sat 1/15 @ 7-9PM

Artist Elizabeth Prindle has been both a graphic design artist and a registered nurse. She says she’s “currently on sabbatical” fro nursing since 2018, and that she’s returned to making art in order to explore personal issues such as widowhood, the social issues exposed by the pandemic, and the trauma of working in health care.

A show of her new work, titled The Aura of Assemblage, opens at Standing Rock Cultural Arts’ North Water Street Gallery in downtown Kent with a reception on Saturday January 15 @ 7-9pm. Masks are required and no more than 15 people will be admitted to the gallery at one time to allow for social distancing.

“My assemblage art explores birth and death, rites of passage, and social issues, as well as my personal history,” says Prindle in her artist statement. “I primarily create in wood and metal materials I’ve collected from estate sales and flea markets.  Old tools whose function is forgotten are a favorite starting point. More than decorative objects, they are talismanic adornments for your environment.  These mystical assemblages interact with the ambient  light to cast shifting shadows inside the boxes themselves as well as projecting outward.

She adds that she hopes you will “Allow them to open conversations within yourself or with others.”

The exhibit runs through Saturday February 12, gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday @ 1-5pm.

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