Metamorphosis

Jennifer Lillis and Christopher Kardambikis

Joram Piatigorsky Gallery at The Writer’s Center
June 1 – August 28, 2023

In Metamorphosis, GMU Art and Design professors Jennifer Lillis and Christopher Kardambikis recast familiar, static forms from antiquity in the soft, accessible material of paper pulp. Through iteration and play, the artists re-collage and remix ancient myths and deities to craft a new, and newly strange, narrative space.

Metamorphosis re-mystifies an academic collection of seventy plaster casts – recording it while working to make it strange and new. Transmuting the original pieces into paper renders them newly weightless, slightly unmoored from their original context. The works are recast in a way that invites speculation and intervention.

Attend the closing artist talk on Sunday, August 27, 3-6pm.

RSVP: https://www.writer.org/event/metamorphosis-closing/