Culture Splash: SANDWORK

Join us Thursdays 4-7pm for weekly exhibits, and a Gloucester citywide celebration of the arts and community. Located in Gloucester’s historic Rocky Neck Artist Colony, Gallery RAG operates as a temporary site of exchange — a place for artists to experiment, to offer, and to gather in improvisational, cross-disciplinary collaboration.

In this project, Brian Wilson, a sculptor, photographer and professor at Bently College explores the relationship our society has with sand.  The sculptures created for this installation combine glass and concrete, two building materials that have very different surfaces, but are derived from the same silicon base material.  Beautifully echoing familiar architectural forms, the simple but monumental sensibility of each piece reveals the tension between beauty, form, environmental degradation, and our relationship with finite resources. The diptych series of images help to illustrate the human impact on the environment.

Gallery RAG & Art+Everywhere remain connected in ethos, as Gallery RAG…