After Another
February 2 – 24, 2012
Opening: First Thursday, February 2, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Gallery4Culture is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Seattle-based artist Curtis Erlinger. Inspired by an ingenious safety device used by mountain rangers to prevent electrocution from lightning strike, Erlinger’s installation is comprised of 3-dimensional “lightning” stools and a selection of figurative drawings. Playing these elements off each other, Erlinger points to the fragility of life.

The drawings, executed in a broad range of scale, are carefully rendered copies of photographic images, done in layered washes of acrylic ink. Translated with the artist’s sensibility, the drawings amplify the lure of the photographs. Erlinger presents his drawings shrouded in an overlay of thin white cloth that is sandwiched between the paper and the glass. The result is mysterious; it clarifies rather than clouds the images and transforms the drawings into objects.