August 26 - November 12, 2023
From the Galveston Arts Center:
“Betwixt features mixed media collages on paper and canvas by Lanecia A. Rouse that explore liminal spaces and states of being. Derived from the Latin word “limen,” which means “threshold,” a liminal space is the moment between what was and what will be. Rouse’s work incorporates found materials into layered abstractions that explore color, texture, and the patina of time on their surfaces. She compares her process of collecting, layering, constructing, and deconstructing as parallel to her own lived experience. Through these works Rouse patiently navigates moments of disorientation following loss, life transition, death, and anything that births uncertainty by seeking beauty in the disorder. Rouse describes her work as a space composed of the time between the ending of one part of one’s life and the unknown new beginning (job loss, moving, heartbreak, war, physical and emotional deaths). She excavates these layers to reveal a sort of visual poetry, providing ways to dig into an ambiguous terrain.”
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