On February 3, Milton’s Nesto Gallery opened its doors to Dissipate/Disappear, a new exhibit by artist Deborah Davidson.
“With the installation, Deborah Davidson is interested in making manifest what she sees as her interior life,” says Nesto Gallery Director Larry Pollans. “The work is the attempt to resolve the conversation between wanting to reveal all and the desire to obliterate. These hybrid painted sculptures echo the subtle but heroic works of the Minimalist sculptor, Anne Truitt.”
In an artist statement about her work, Ms. Davidson writes: “I am informed by ineffable ideas—Language (and related text, voice, sound), History, Memory. What I want to do with the work is impossible; I want mute objects to speak. The process itself becomes a way to visualize this unattainable goal and therefore is the way the practice propels itself—so that the subsequent projects attempt to complete the previous ones. I continue to be interested in making objects, which have a particular presence; I want to make them dissipate, and eventually disappear.”
Ms. Davidson earned her master’s from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and her bachelor’s degree from Binghamton University. Her work is in many private and public collections, including Yale University, Wellesley College, Boston Public Library, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Ms. Davidson is founder and director of Catalyst Conversations, devoted to the dialogue between art and science, and is also the director of the Suffolk University Gallery.
Dissipate/Disappear will be in the Nesto Gallery through March 7. Located on the lower level of Milton Academy’s Art and Media Center, the Gallery is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.