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I would like to review "From the Archives" at CEVA

July 12 - August 3, 2010
"From the Archives" Featuring Career Development Program Fellows Maria Anasazi, Leslie Atik and Diane Savona

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists 1521 Locust Street, Lower Level, Philadelhpia, PA 19102

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 22nd 5 - 7pm. Transforming archival materials such as books and microfiche, Maria Anasazi’s work deals with issues of personal and collective loss through sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Leslie Atik considers the metaphors common to language and textiles in her installation works. Drawing on a variety of written sources, Atik creates a chalkboard on which the marks of the chalk, tags, threads, and map pins reveal the inherent elegance of the grammatical patterns that are integral to the meaning of the selected texts. Diane Savona embeds domestic objects between layers of cloth to form fossil-like impressions, which can be read as hieroglyphic symbols. Combined with apron images, Savona’s stitched markings suggest cultural maps.