REDDING – Artist Nathan Cordero will exhibit his artwork January 19-February 25, 2016 at the Shasta College Art Gallery. There will be an artist’s lecture on Friday, January 29, 2016 at 12:00-1:00 pm in room 400 with a reception to follow at 1:00-3:00 pm in the 300 building. This is a free event and open to the public.
Nathan Cordero trolls the land with a metal detector. He mines the flotsam and jetsam that we lose or discard and reshapes his findings into art. Picture pull-tabs, pennies, a friendship bracelet, and hand-made nails transformed. As curator Renny Pritikin writes, Cordero also “sifts through mass media language for text that resonates,” and he “plucks a phrase or entire headline from women’s magazine covers and incises it into wood veneer.” Whether sifting through the earth or digging through popular culture, Nathan Cordero unearths fragments and transforms them into an art that reveals something about our past and present.
Shasta College Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday 8:00 am – 4:00 pm and Monday-Thursday 6:00–9:00 pm. For additional information please contact Andrew Patterson-Tutschka, apatterson-tutschka@ShastaCollege.edu
