John Saurer
In John Saurer’s All That Glitters Is Not Gold, boughs and twigs collected from the artist’s yard are encrusted with gold glitter. The manicured bits of organic material radiate in an 8-foot circle. Artist Melanie Pankau notes Saurer’s approaching retirement from teaching and relocation to Montana as she writes about this work in her exhibition catalog essay. Pankau says the installation “marks neither a departure nor an arrival, but the cathartic and vulnerable space of recalling memories, achievements, and losses. The smoke-and-mirrors nature of the title speaks to the appearance of a shimmering surface that covers the ungroundedness of transitions.”
Read more about Saurer’s work in Pankau’s full essay on page 27 of the exhibition catalog.
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