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Mary Mito: Passage to China
July 20 - August 18, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, July 20, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe
1011 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
TEL 505.954.5700 FAX 505.954.5754
Hours: Monday-Saturday 10am - 5pm
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The Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of the installation titled "Passage to China" made up of fifty-four oil on canvas paintings, each of which depicts a single crab hole. Mary Mito’s composition directs our eyes toward fifty four holes – points that contrast so starkly with the relative luminescence of their surroundings as to be unintelligible to the human eye beyond the very edges of the holes’ apertures.
Mito’s decision to construct "Passage to China" in the form of a matrix is allied to her understanding of repetition as reverence. It is likely that her serial repetition of the form of the crab hole speaks to her affinity for works produced by the Zen practice of Hituzendo (the ritualized figuring of the form of the Enso as a gauge of spiritual enlightenment). However, it is not limited to a single influence; rather, her adoption of the matrix also underscores her accomplished appropriation of a definitive device of Modernist painting.
Mito is renowned for her unique approach to the traditional landscape genre. Rather than vast, dramatic vistas, Mito prefers to render views of the earth around her feet, always concentrating on the subtleties of the surfaces and the contrast of light and shadow. The exhibition will open Friday, July 20, and the artist will be in attendance. A catalogue with an essay by Alex Ross will accompany the show .
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