Remember the Shadows​

Luz Marina Ruiz & Quinn Keck

February 7th to March 22, 2025

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“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”

– Eavan Boland

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Luz and Quinn work across various media, drawing, painting, printmaking, book arts, and installation, but printmaking drives their individual work.   Each sees freshly pulled print as the beginning of something new, and both are interested in the theme of cycles and repetition represented by water and shadows.  The book art form allows multiple images to merge to convey an idea in one structure.

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In physics light is both a particle and a wave, just as the shadow is both presence and absence, revealing postmodern contradictions. To acknowledge the shadows is to shift our attention, to see there is no I in the vacuum of space, and to hear José Ortega y Gasset when he says “I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself." 

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Acknowledge the Shadows - gallery hours are 12 to 5pm on Saturdays or by appointment at info@sevenmirrorsart.com