Ellen George and Jerry Mayer at Nine Gallery
Within Within
December 3, 2015 - January 3, 2016
Nine Gallery (Enter through Blue Sky Gallery)
12:00 – 5:00pm, Tuesday - Sunday
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland OR
Within Within, an installation at the Nine Gallery by Ellen George and Jerry Mayer, is a composition featuring rice arranged on the floor. It consists of a field of naturally colored black rice within a larger field of dyed multi-colored rice within the expanse of the gallery’s brown-grey floor within the gallery’s four white walls.
Within Within can be experienced formally as relationships between the deep black rice field, the rich colored rice field, the grey-brown concrete floor and the familiar
white gallery walls. Within Within can also be experienced intuitively and emotionally.
Within Within breaks from George and Mayer’s usual process of creating their installations improvisationally on-site. However, it does continue their tradition of creating contemplative spaces through the use of familiar materials in unique and minimal ways.