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"False Starts, Repairs, and Overhauls" by Mark Licari
Disjecta
Portland, Oregon
"False Starts, Repairs, and Overhauls" by Mark Licari
Disjecta
Portland, Oregon
2011

Mark Licari is the fifth exhibiting artist in Jenene Nagy's 2011-2012 Curator-in-Residence season. Licari's work, a series of wall drawings will be in keeping with the overarching theme of Nagy's programming and executed on-site during a short residency. False Starts, Repairs, and Overhauls explores the artist's interest in the geological turbulence of the Pacific Northwest and the succession of life that develops in a post-volcanic landscape. Through the immediacy of drawing, Licari orchestrates a cast of characters and scenarios that attempt to interweave the natural world and human world in a way that exposes absurdities and weaknesses, but also the fantastic potential of our man-made and natural systems. Ultimately, the exhibition will be the result of a story that unfolds and shifts as the artist draws his way through the space.

See the video here: vimeo.com/37613776