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remade
Elizabeth Dorbad and Libby Hayes
July 9 - August 15, 2004
Opening Friday, July 9, 6 PM - 8 PM
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Special installation by Bay Area conceptual artist David Ireland
>> Preview the artwork of Elizabeth Dorbad
>> Preview the artwork of Libby Hayes
Julie Baker Fine Art is pleased to present “remade” a show of new work by Nevada County artists Elizabeth Dorbad and Libby Hayes. Dorbad is an assemblage artist who creates non linear narrative collages from found objects. Many of Dorbad’s constructions are modeled after circus sideshows and theater. Inside the assembled stages, Dorbad creates a world based on the variety of experiences and impressions from waking life and dream imagery. She calls it “The Theater of the Mind”. The works combine personal experience with political ideology and criticism. She is inspired by literature, poetry, and performance. Words, language and visual symbols play a prominent role in the works or in the titles. Using materials that many might discard or toss Dorbad’s constructions capture the mystery, beauty, variety and randomness of thoughts and experience.
Libby Hayes also explores random actions but in process rather than narration or construction. Hayes does not start with an idea in mind but instead enjoys the discovery of what occurs in the experimentation of combining uncommon materials such as glue, wax, paint, pastel, wood, collage, while simultaneously covering up and exposing a multi layered abstract surface. An expressionistic painter, Hayes works in non-confrontational soothing palettes that create a patina of age. Hayes’ paintings resemble walls that have been stripped, the layers beneath illuminating subtle images like old wallpaper and revealing a sense of time past and history discovered.
“remade” opens Friday, July 9, 2004 and run through August 14, 2004.
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