February 10 - March 10, 2021

Zoom Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Wednesday, February 10, 5pm

Myths of Creation by Steve Wanna (virtual solo exhibition)

”Joseph Campbell describes the role of mythology in human culture as something that helps us define our place in the world, both on the micro and macro levels. Myths of creation and origin are common to all cultures. As our awareness of the world and the cosmos has grown, many of the world’s old myths have become inadequate. For me, science offers the ground for a new mythology for the modern world, helping us navigate and find our place in the cosmos, sometimes quite literally.

Each work in the Myths of Creation series is a record of a unique event, an instant of time, forever frozen. The series is inspired by images from NASA’s Hubble Telescope of cosmic events like supernovae: what we see are records of ancient events that occurred eons ago but still have impact and immediacy. I wanted to capture that feeling: each work is made by exploding various materials onto a prepared board. The resulting explosion becomes the work—each piece is a record of the very instant of its creation. The titles reflect this as they bare the date and exact time of the event. The works are fixed in cast resin, which adds a stunning visual dimension, and enhances the sense of these works as frozen moments of time, records of specific, cataclysmic events.”

CE191113.1035 Acrylic, powder pigment, resin, plaster, mixed media Framed (white) 32" x 32" x 2.5"