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Victoria Palermo: Endangered Species

On Thursday, February 2nd, Victoria Palermo opened a solo exhibition of sculpture at the John Davis Gallery. The work was on display through February, 2006.

Victoria Palermo is a sculptor whose work has been exhibited nationally and in Europe and in area venues such as the Williams College Museum of Art, the Kidspace Museum at Mass MOCA and The Fields Sculpture Park in Ghent, NY. Her work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine.

Victoria’s work in this exhibit speaks to a simultaneous attraction and repulsion to modern day consumer products and packaging--the “bright and shiny”. She re-creates some of this seduction of surface in her work using liquid rubber over hollow armatures made of discarded consumer packaging. In the final product, the boxes, bottles and containers are gone but their after-image remains--sometimes in conglomeration--and sometimes in studied arrangement.

Ms. Palermo has nostalgia for the object. In her own words, "When I am in the studio, I wonder about the viability of my endeavor--this spending endless hours in process in the age of instantaneous communication of ideas and images in cyberspace. This, and wistfulness for the formal concerns of my modernist heroes, led to the title of this exhibit, “Endangered Species.”

She resides in Queensbury, New York and currently teaches at Skidmore College