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Touching Collage


You Are Here VR photo credit Jessica Hernandez
You Are Here VR photo credit Jessica Hernandez

You Are Here VR, a collaborative work with Dayna Leavitt was recently on display at Unbound Visual Arts Gallery in Boston, MA. 


Curated by Jessica Hernandez she writes about the exhibition and her selection of You Are Here VR for the show below in the curatorial statement below…-


Touching Collage is a group exhibition of fifteen artists whose works explore the titular idea materially and conceptually. They’ve not only revealed a diverse array of aesthetic interests by working in media such as sculpture, video, VR, artist books, photographic collage, and mixed media painting, but their works have collectively generated four central themes. 


Moving into photography, video, and sound, Allida Warn, Alysia Macaulay, Meredith Starr, Dayna Leavitt, and Corey Brown create scenes physical and digital, real and reworked. Warn explores the city of Jamaica Plain, MA through aluminum prints depicting an “an animated process drawing of seasonal change” while Macaulay reflects on her time in Ocala, FL – creating the mirrored mixed-media photographic collage Two Live Oaks – Mondrian Style.


A similar focus on place, Leavitt and Starr have created a virtual reality based on their transatlantic collaboration. Their process includes exchanging images, text, and everyday observations, later forging the edited material into an imagined virtual space. Corey Brown goes further into constructed spaces, taking inspiration from the online sphere and producing a video collage of disparate images. Brown’s second work in the show might be understood as its analog counterpart – an acrylic work that incorporates much of the same feel and methods albeit through paint.


The exhibition was on display from October 27 – December 8, 2024


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