dove passages | Aleana Egan at Kerlin Gallery

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“Criticism is one artist discerning the secrets of another artist, who understood that something was decided perhaps by the passage of a bird, or a color.” – from Hèléne Cixous interview in The Paris Review, Issue 254

The sculptures and paintings in dove passages are initiated by a sense of touch and movement alongside a sense of sight. For Aleana Egan, painting is imagined as an activity of passage and continuum; an internal language that permeates the artists‘ practice in indirect and associative ways. In this exhibition the compositional power of dreaming is given focus. It’s ephemeral nature, the having and then losing of an area of a pa