"Palimpsests" by Evan Cameron and Liz Laribee

Evan Cameron and Liz Laribee - "Palimpsests"
August 16 - September 11, 2011

Reception: Friday, August 19, 2011 from 6 - 10pm

This shared show features work by Evan Cameron and Liz Laribee exhibiting pieces that seek to strip originality into something else. Redactive found poetry transferred to both plain and painted repurposed canvas materials, Evan Cameron's work uncovers new poetic narratives hidden beneath old, cast off prose. Using cardboard waste from the Midtown Scholar, Liz Laribee has peeled back a series of author portraits.

Liz Laribee lives and works in Harrisburg, PA. An interest in socially conscious design led her to begin Bottom Drawer Designs: home decor and hand crafts made from alternative materials, most of which have been found roadside. Her blog, bottomdrawerdesigns.blogsp​ot.com, highlights ongoing projects to use architectural salvage to create strange and beautiful things. She has shown and sold her work through solo and collaborative shows, as well as through commission. She has been accused of being obsessed with Harrisburg, and her work incorporates her favorite aspects of the city.

Evan Cameron has managed to find his way home and now lives in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, PA. He is primarily a poet, currently in his first semester of Lesley University's (Cambridge, MA) Low Residency MFA program. His romance with text is an old and tempermental one while visual art is a new love, a welcome oasis of free flowing color far from the gritty trenches of syntax. Palimpsests is his second showing of visual art and first nominally collaborative effort - he owes a lot of thanks to a lot of people.