of strange shadows installed at UIS Visual Arts Gallery, University of Illinois Springfield, 2017.
of strange shadows is an investigation of color, print and collective memory. Contrasting a subdued primary palette with gray images of residual protest and violence, artist-collaborators Mutchler and Urban look back to the 1960’s and 1970’s as captured in printed matter from the same era. The installation of layered digital prints evoke the smoking and obscured remnants of a civil strife and political tumult at once too familiar and yet distant. The layering of large-scale, abstracted images printed on everyday bond paper suggests the ephemerality and fragility of any one generation’s defining moments.
All work digital on paper with acrylic, dimensions variable (paper roll width 34").