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June First Friday – To Build A Better Mousetrap

June 03, 2010

Please Join us at the gallery for ‘To Build A Better Mousetrap’ – curated by Brant Schuller. Gallery reception is First Friday June 4, 5-10pm. The ten participating artists are Becky Blosser, Line Bruntse, Francine Fox, Jeffrey Moser, Tim Roda, Brant Schuller, Deborah Sigel, Andrew Small, Jeremy Waak, and Shawn Williams.

Opening on the First Friday in June at the Infantree Gallery will be the thematic exhibition “To Build a Better Mousetrap”. The term “ To Build a Better Mousetrap” is a cliché often used when addressing innovation or a money making scheme, but this show proposes that there are larger social implications, cultural critique and introspective aspects at work in this saying. Using a variety of mediums, the concept will be explored by ten regional artists, many of whom tend to show nationally and internationally and whose work is not that familiar in Lancaster.

In “Teslan Dream”, Jeffrey Moser has constructed a fictional response to the concept of a mousetrap that suggests the image presented is a photograph of the dreams of Nikola Tesla the pioneer of commercial electricity. The artist states that “it is a commentary about the progress of science, the mysterious inception of original ideas, and the struggle against established methods”.

In Francine Fox’s oil painting, Honey: Tar, she creates a layered space in which a labyrinth with a reptilian appendage drags a highly rendered likeness of a mouse into a sensual but almost animalistic detached mouth emerging from a field of gray. This surreal scenario becomes oddly introspective due in part to its intimate size of 8”x8”. Brant Schuller organized the exhibition and stated “in part his intent was to challenge area artist whose work he admired to reconsider their regular studio practice by having them respond to an unfamiliar theme”. He noted, “Artists’ often work independently and can create their own personal traps when pursuing their work” and he wanted them to break out of them.

For further information contact Infantree at hello[at]theinfantree.com or Brant Schuller at 717-715-7329.