LAURA CANNAMELA
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ACG 7th Annual Members Show Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY January 6 - February 11, 2012 Best in Show Award "…the work with the greatest presence (and, ironically one of the tiniest) was Agemaki (Trefoil Knots) by Laura Cannamela. This visual Belgian waffle of a collage (or assemblage) is part drawing, part sculpture, part architecture and part studio. What I mean about the last ingredient is that the work is up front about process -- the artist shows you how it is made -- and yet doesn't kill the mystery. Learning later that Agemaki was inspired by the Tale of Genji, arguably the first novel, written by an anonymous woman (possibly identified as Murasaki Shikibu), only makes it juicier. It feels both an ode to Japanese pictorial and literary traditions, and yet is bursting with news about modernism, the computer age and the need to go more deeply into things." - Juror Michael Oatman, artist and Professor of Architecture, Rensselaer | read entire article | | more info on past exhibits | |
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