The Burden of Big

Mercedes Teixido

The Burden of Big

January 10-February 8, 1997

 

Opening Reception: 6:00pm-8:00pm, Friday, January 10

The Burden of Big comprises of small objects recessed into illuminated wall cubicles.

The exhibition investigates the subtle and the powerful, the miniature and the gigantic. Scale is of primary importance in her work, as she “examines the potency of things which are delicate and tenuous but at the same time firm and insistent in their own truths.”