Mary Long Graham, Chestnut Hill: Stop , 1995. Graphite on Paper, 55" x 51" Photo Credit: Susan Byrne

GOING GOING

Drawings by Mary Long Graham

Sound Installation by Linda Dusman

April 27 - May 29, 1998

Graham's large scale drawings are imbued with shadows, surface and light patterns extracted from her observation of the asphalt roadways in our environment. Using pavement as a mirror Graham forms a drawn collage of distorted shadowed images where nature is subordinate to a world dominated and degraded by motor vehicles.

Dusman's sound installation is composed of both extinct bird sounds and distress calls of living birds. The songs of extinct birds, obtained from a unique library at Cornell University that collects and maintains tape recordings of bird songs, are heard at regular intervals, interspersed with periods of silence. The distress calls are activated by the gallery visitor while the contrasting bird songs are heard unaltered by human presence, poignantly expressing the inability to reclaim what is permanently lost. Using MAX a sophisticated computer program Dusman is able to alter the progression of the distress calls triggered by the motion detectors placed in the gallery and to create a metaphor for human interaction with nature.

Mary Long Graham, Crosswalk, 1996, Pencil and ink transfers on paper. 54" x 51" Photo credit: Susan Byrne

GOING GOING brings the environmental concerns of two artists working in different disciplines together. For the month of May the Trustman Art Gallery will be transformed by the past and present sounds and surfaces of the world.

Gallery hours are 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The gallery will be closed May 25th. Gallery events are free and open to the public. For more information regarding this exhibition please call (617) 521-2268.

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