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Friday, December 6th, 6pm-10pm
Eonta Space
Artists coexist with a changing world. Anne Percoco, Bill Kennon, Andrea McKenna
Our culture serves us up apocalyptic
storylines on a regular basis and as
humans we consume predictions of our demise like hot, buttered popcorn. But within the anxiety and
paranoia of our ‘big finale’ lies the thrum, fear and excitement of everyday, incremental change. Do we therefore focus on the now or the, perhaps, never to be?
END WORLD’S END, our show for Fall 2024, offers the work of three
artists who confront change in three unique ways.
ANNE PERCOCO creates a littered environment made from trash re-
created into leaves. Her work speaks to the natural environment and
our wanton destruction of habitats in our giddy race to consume but
also asks important questions about HOW we see our surroundings.
As Anne says…
‘This installation transforms the gallery space into an interactive
environment, where the sculpture's components—crafted from
discarded paper, styrofoam, and plastic found on Jersey City
sidewalks—are dispersed across the floor. Each piece, cut into
the shape of a leaf of a local tree species, shows how overlooked
beauty and unique textures can be found in waste materials.
The scattered leaves represent a natural mantle of fallen leaves,
which serves to nourish the soil, sequester carbon, and provide
shelter for wildlife. The broom invites reflection on our human-
centric value system, particularly in municipal landscape
management, as fallen leaves are routinely collected and
removed from urban spaces. This piece explores how waste,
often hidden or ignored, can be both a burden and a resource.’
BILL KENNON offers an other-worldly take on the environment but
this time culturally and transactionally. He mines the quotidian and
banal in order to reveal the hidden, darker side.
‘The work is meant to evoke a disquieting and menacing surreal
world. Common and banal signage and symbols from our
everyday world are manipulated to express feelings of danger,
eeriness and anxiety. My paintings are meticulously realistic
because, by creating visual illusions, I want to make you see
what's out there, all around you, in new ways.’
ANDREA McKENNA raises us into another dimension entirely with her
burnt and manipulated hangings. Moving beyond earthly concerns,
these pieces ask us to question what comes next, what remains after
the hubristic human meets the infinite.
‘I create tapestries with textured figures, resembling a torn body,
leaving parts uncovered, enabling light to peek through, and exposing
their energy. I burn my work in places as an act of letting go of what
was. The burlap becomes layered, rich with earthy color and ash.
My work shifts the viewer's viewpoint to engage in an alternative
thought process and introduces them to figures, not of this world but
perhaps of an “in-between” world. My works represent a spirit
forming, traveling to its final destination' - shedding all its earthly worries and carrying its newfound inner light.’
We welcome this opportunity to show the work of three artists who
parse the world around them so insightfully while shedding clues to
our mortality, our fears, our displacement from place, person and
pursuits.
Accessibility
Wheelchair Accessible
Please contact 201-744-3227 in advance for questions on accessibility
Contact
Website: eontaspacenj.com
Email: eontaspace@gmail.com Phone: 201-536-1119
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