Carlos to Present ‘Bending History’
Ed Carlos will present an exhibit, “Bending History” at the Tibbott Gallery in University School of Nashville, located at 2000 Edgehill Ave., Nashville. The exhibit will be present Monday, Jan. 15, until Thursday, Feb. 29. An opening reception will be from 4–6 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 18. Parking is available at the 19th Avenue parking lot.
These china marker drawings, each 8 feet by 4 feet, paradoxically intermingle and intercept each other while given unique emotional stance. As mythological portraits from different sanctions of spiritual endeavor, each emblazes light and enters the perception of history, influenced by the encounters of light as in the Old Testament a la Ezekiel. The individual images chosen inhabit the moving, non-static grasp of incarnations and reincarnations, amplifying their resonances. The images of the persona involved are imagined, altered as historically considered, therein revitalized. Each is a congruence that changes history and bends possible expectations of reality.
Words, akin to images, resonate, assume, their presences being essential, metaphorical. They are black holes of gravity, each image an avatar of reality, thereby daring a viewer to plunge into the meanings they embody. They provide vitality and are willing to face being enfaced enough to collapse in their energy. Hence each is a promising significance. The materials alter the imagery as they age, more so than in the past.