Janet Nolan: Recent Work January 12 – February 20, 2005 Reception for the artist: January 12 from 6-9 pm Artist’s talk: Saturday, February 5 at 2 pm Bruno Marina Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Janet Nolan. Click to view larger image Nolan’s installations and sculpture are created from post-consumer material including bottle caps, glass baby food jars, discarded umbrellas and plastic six-pack holders. From a distance the identity of the material is often disguised not only by the sheer quantity used, but also by the way it is reconstructed. Through experimentation with the physical properties of these collected objects, Nolan creates structures resembling those found in nature, such as webs, nests and pods. Umbrella parts are combined into spiral forms like swirling celestial galaxies or a DNA double helix. In Falls, thousands of plastic six-pack holders are connected with grommets so that they resemble torrents of rushing water. The works use repetition as a primary structural element, and so are incredibly labor intensive to make. Covering the gallery walls and ceiling like a giant wave, Please Play Again is a work made from spools of copper wire twisted around hundreds of colorful plastic bottle caps. The exhibition also features Nolan’s first glass works, in which baby food jars are stacked together, glazed with powdered glass pigment, and slumped and fused together. In 2004 Nolan had a solo exhibition at the Hillwood Art Museum of Long Island University. Her works have been exhibited in numerous commercial galleries as well as a variety of public art contexts including: a garden in New York’s East Village, Newark’s Gateway Plaza, New York University’s Washington Square windows on Broadway, and a permanent installation at Harvard University. A native of Alabama, Ms. Nolan lives and works in New York City.