Chaga, Bloodletting, Atlantis, Mars, Encino: Anthony Pasquarosa and Greta Svalberg
September 17 - October 1, 2014
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 17, 6-8 PM
Sponsored by Paper City Brewing Company
Anthony Pasquarosa’s ink and watercolor drawings on paper and Greta Svalberg’s mixed media works depict disparate subject matter covering foraging for chaga tea, medieval bloodletting, Mars Rover imagery, the lost city of Atlantis, transcendental commercial casting, and swimming in Encino, California. Images are culled from Warburgian research and observation that are reconstituted through recollection and recomposition. The artworks oscillate between landscape and anatomy in a way that is simultaneously psychedelic utopian and critical of the medical industrial complex. The artists question the human body’s relationship to its environment as viewed through hard science, science fiction, historicism, phenomenology, and contemporary subcultures.
Hampshire Gazette Art People: Greta Svalberg
Greta Svalberg & Anthony Pasquarosa, photo by John William Moloney
photo by Esther S White
Greta Svalberg with her paintings, photo by Jenna Weingarten
photo by Melissa Smith
