Three Solo Shows at Dorsch Gallery
This coming Saturday, Dorsch Gallery opens up the new season with three solo shows: Peter Barrett’s Ergo Gnomic, Amanda Burnham’s Marginalia, and Michelle Hailey’s Between the Valleys. Below is just a taste of what you can expect from the three artists.
Peter Barrett’s wall installations and painted sculptures explore and contain several dualistic and competing elements. From its more rigid and orderly geometric forms to its wild and woolly, organically shaped curves and swerves, it encompasses elements of both high and low art, or as the gallery puts it “sacred geometry and pop-culture psychedelia.”
Amanda Burnham’s second solo show at Dorsch will be a mixture of works on paper and an installation, both of which take on the urban landscape as its subject matter. Benjamin Lima of Yale University writes of Burham, that her work, “allows us to explore directly […] symbolic aspects of these vernacular environments [that] remain hidden or implicit when we see only their surfaces, as in photographs.”
Finally there’s the New York-based Michelle Hailey who often works in the media of painting and collage. For this show she’ll have large-scale ink and oil canvases with crisp and vivid color and composition that betray a subtle yet clever sense of humor.
Dorsch Gallery: 151 NW 24th St, Miami; 305-576-1278; dorschgallery.com