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Colby College Museum of Art - Peter Soriano: Permanent Maintenance
Saturday, April 02, 2016, 10:00am - 05:00pm
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Peter Soriano: Permanent Maintenance
William D. Adams Gallery, Museum Lobby

An accomplished sculptor, Peter Soriano began making wall drawings in 2012. Rather than shaping, carving, or casting three-dimensional forms, he now assembles and arranges visual experience, using what captures and holds his attention to generate orchestrated constellations of marks, such as those that make up Permanent Maintenance, his largest wall drawing to date. Commissioned by the Colby College Museum of Art, this multipart piece spans approximately one hundred linear feet of the William D. Adams Gallery and is composed of acrylic and spray paint applied directly to the wall.

Soriano’s process is open and adaptive. Working from initial drawings and notes, he develops wall drawings to scale in his studio, proceeding section by section and producing a set of instructions for each visual element. Structured into these instructions are opportunities for the contributions of others, and the Colby project included a team of student installers and other participants when the piece was realized on site in September 2015. (Three notebooks of instructions as well as other materials related to the production of the work are on view in the Davis Curricular Gallery through April 28, 2015.)

Location Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME
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