Traces in Time will be on display from July 7 through September 3

Reception on July 8 from 5-8 P.M.

Norman Kary and Marilyn Jolly have an affinity for using found materials in their art practice. Found objects can evoke time-history, culture, memory-remembrance, the natural world and suggest connections to human activity and values. They have used found materials and assemblage in their studio practice for a number of years. They also have been admirers of each other’s works and feel a connection in the ways they each incorporate materials in their art practice.

Both of these artists find stories or a sense of human perseverance and frailty in the scavenged materials that are incorporated into their artworks. Norman and Marilyn employ found materials and objects as evidence of humor or pathos in the human condition. Well-worn surfaces are suggestive of use or repeated attempts. Sometimes, playful juxtapositions or arrangements express serendipitous moments of insight. These scavenged materials are used just as paint or new wood or other more traditional art materials would be used to create a work of art, but also retain the resonance of time, history, and human touch.

Each of these artists’ approaches is somewhat different with slightly different motivations, but the work together engages in an interesting conversation about how our possessions reflect our human condition through the material world.