Sunday, June 08, 2008

Orphic Excavations in the News & Review

[Orphic Excavations, CCAI's exhibition at St. Mary's Art Center in Virginia City, is the subject of a review by Cheron Taylor in the June 7 edition of the Reno News & Review. Below is the first paragraph of the review, and a link to the full article.]

Olfactory Orpheus: Anthony Alston
By Cheron Taylor

"Unlike the moribund birds inhabiting some of his earlier work, Anthony Alston flies freely through airspace just below the radar, gathering and making liberal use of every resource and medium at his disposal. Sculpture and found objects, selected with politic care, occupy his spacial canvases."

read the full review


[photo from the Reno News & Review Web site. Caption: "Anthony Alston brings an odiferous underworld to the mountain dwellers of Virginia City. Photo by Nick Higman."]

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