The Handwerker Gallery is pleased to welcome the Ithaca College community to celebrate the opening of TAXING TIMES: Work by Elise Engler, with a reception on Thursday, March 19, 5-7 p.m. The Handwerker Gallery is pleased to welcome the Ithaca College community to celebrate the opening of TAXING TIMES: Work by Elise Engler, with a reception on Thursday, March 19, 5-7 p.m.
TAXING TIMES
Work by Elise Engler
March 18-April 17, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 19, 5-7 p.m.
Elise Engler makes lists, chronicling particular experiences by drawing and painting all of their components. Subject matter ranges from the personal and intimate to the political and expansive. Having once drawn everything she owned, Engler continues to depict the contents of her luggage whenever she travels. Other work is more anthropologically documentarian: all the chairs in a NYC public school classroom, the contents of over sixty women’s handbags, everything used to maintain Riverside Park. Drawing from several different projects, the works selected for Taxing Times share two concerns-- the passage of time and the expenditure of American tax dollars. The work ranges from drawings of the weapons and casualties of the Iraq War to Engler’s recent experience during her federally sponsored time in Antarctica through the National Science Foundation.
Engler lives and works in New York City. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Bennington College, and her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Hunter College, City University of New York. In October of 2014, Engler visited Ithaca College during Family Weekend to facilitate a drawing event for which students and their families drew missing objects sold from the college's permanent collection during the 1970's. Those drawings will be included in this exhibition along with Engler's drawn response.
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