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MICHAEL REA:

wOOD i, cOULD i?

>April 3-June 15, 2008

Michael Rea's works are evocative and rational responses to history. Constructed from untreated wood and memory, they invoke one simple axiomatic truth: fictions or established hearsay allow for flawed interpretations that lead to flawed results. Michael Rea creates something short of that outcome, the idea of an object that remains a dream. His temporal works are humane in scale acquiring their patinas naturally, through interaction, by touch. Offering simultaneity, they are a service to what could be and what never will.

image: Michael Rea, Olympia, 2007

SPECIAL EVENTS:

June 5

Gallery Talk with Michael Rea

6:30-8pm. Free and open to the public

June 6

Sculpture Class with Michael Rea

1-3pm. $25, CAC members $20.

Using foam and wood, Rea will teach students his sculptural technique of building objects from personal memories.

 

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