In her recent work now on display at Silvermine Art Guild in New Canaan, town resident June Ahrens has explored the issues of fragility, vulnerability, danger and healing. “What’s Left” is a site-dependent environment made up of a video surrounded by blue walls that are created with a hand-applied combination of dried pigment mixed with salt.
The video expresses imagery and music to mine the events of mass culture and create an alternative world. The materials transcend boundaries, and become a map of awareness, bringing the past into the present.
The show ends December 23.
Ahrens’s work has been exhibited at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, in “Strong Women Artists,” a group exhibit in Matera, Italy, and in many other exhibitions throughout the U.S.
She was nominated for a 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and was a recipient of a grant from the N.E.A. She was honored by the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism as a Distinguished Advocate for the Arts and as an Individual Artist. Her work is in the collection of numerous museums and universities through the United States.
What’s Left, by June Ahrens, at Silvermine Art Guild, on display now until Dec. 23.