Artist reception – Urban Arterial

GearBox Gallery presents Urban Arterial, featuring work by Jules Campbell and Julie V. Garner. Intrigued by the meandering geometrics and grit of city streets, with their attendant subterranean grids of sewers and pipelines, the artists contemplate and respond to the multilayered complexity that sustains and contains life in the city. Campbell employs an intensive process compiling discarded materials in dense multilayered collages and then abrading the surface. This process mirrors the repeated cycles of construction and decay in these types of environments. Garner weaves cut photographs, taken from multiple angles, to achieve the desired degree of abstraction and transition between images. Each tapestry consists of hundreds of splices that confounds the senses and slows down the process of seeing.