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Kei Ito’s solo exhibition Teach Me How to Like This Planet at the College of Maryland’s Stamp Gallery is a somber exploration of generational trauma as a third generation hibakusha (atomic bomb target), and the repercussions of war. Ito’s practice is based in camera-significantly less images, uncovered objects, and textual content-dependent artworks.

Two discovered item-will work develop haunting mechanical appears. “Talking Heads,” is an installation of two analogue radios on chest-superior pedestals with an eerie static noise and sporadic voices that audio like antique radio recordings, wherever “Who will be the up coming sacrifice of peace?” and “Who will be the following sacrifice of war?” is recurring slowly and gradually above and above.

The static, mechanical and human sounds construct an impression of a barren landscape, and the repetition of every single phrase feels both of those unsure and totally hopeless considering that it suggests an unending likelihood of conflict.

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3 Art Gallery Exhibits to See Correct Now

By Aug. 20. Tempo, 540 West 25th Road, Manhattan 212-421-3292, pacegallery.com.

The pictures of olive trees in California, Israel, and Italy that make up “For Now,” JoAnn Verburg’s present-day present at Speed, are resplendent, enigmatic, and a kind of feint Verburg’s authentic matter is time and how it is seasoned. The several body images and movie operates, lavishly textured and devotionally rendered, function as Delphic objects, portals to character. Of class, a climate-managed gallery is significantly absent from character, but the energy of Verburg’s photos is this sort of that even if they really do not particularly transport you to the stillness of the Umbrian countryside, you sense like they could, and the smaller gravity in between people ideas is momentarily erased.

The interplanar impact is heightened by a number of formalist thrives. Verburg, who returns to olive trees like Morandi to his bottles, makes use of

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|In: Yard Art|Last Updated:
Here are the art galleries, exhibits to see in Savannah GA this week

Looking for art in the Savannah area? Go no further. Here’s our list of exhibitions, galleries and museums. 

Artists for August: Gallery 209, 209 E. River St.; gallery209savannah.com. Hannah Burtnik and Olivia Beaumont.

Burtnik creates functional pottery and yard art using the process of wheel-throwing and hand-building. She is fascinated by the different techniques to sculpt, add textures and decoration to her pieces. Hannah is particularly drawn to simple white glazing to highlight the designs. All of her pieces are one of a kind.

Functional pottery and yard art by Hannah Burtnik.

Beaumont is best known for her oil paintings of richly dressed animal characters. Olivia’s paintings are full of historical art references. Her use of Renaissance themes, Golden age painting techniques, and costumes borrowed from history’s nobility transport viewers into an Old World. Her portraits have been described by curators as haunting and soulful. Her intent is to invite the viewer into an enchanted world, while

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