Continuing through September 12, 2013
Glasgow, Scotland-based artist Lucy Skaer brings spatial finesse and sheer visual poetry to the verbosely titled but highly engaging exhibition, "MONDAY 8.4.13, TUESDAY 9.4.13, WEDNESDAY 10.4.13, THURSDAY 11.4.13, FRIDAY 12.4.13, SATURDAY 13.4.13, SUNDAY 14.4.13, MONDAY 15.4.13, TUESDAY 16.4.13, WEDNESDAY 17.4.13, THURSDAY 18.4.13, FRIDAY 19.4.13, SATURDAY 20.4.13, SUNDAY 21.4.13, MONDAY 22.4.1." Print-making numbers are among the constellation of media that inform Skaer’s wide-ranging practice and the numbered editions are at the heart of her current exhibition.
Back in April, the artist journeyed to a limestone quarry in Iowa to retrieve 22 tons of lithographic limestone, which she subsequently had hauled to Portland aboard an 18-wheeler. Several of those stones now sit in this light-flooded exhibition space, exuding a gravitas that complements their physical heft. There is something almost mystical about these small boulders, recalling the standing stones of the British Isles or the massive heads of Easter Island. During a residency here Skaer used the stones to create prints, which are also part of the exhibition. As a final element she has also included myriad terra-cotta sculptures, each roughly the size of a brick. In scale and concept the show comes perhaps the closest of any in YU’s relatively short history of fully utilizing the nonprofit’s dauntingly expansive exhibition space.
