Ian Pedigo’s sculptural installation, “Living Daylights,” explores the concepts of making the intangible tangible and the invisible concrete. His exhibit opens Tuesday in Cress Gallery, located in the Fine Arts Center at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Visitors will see eight works that have never been exhibited by Pedigo, a native of Alaska who resides in New York City. Arranged on the gallery’s floors and walls, as well as suspended in open spaces, the show appears to constantly change and evolve.
“His compositions create scenes that, while invented or fictionalized, relate to our real experience in the physical world to transform artistic formalism into an encounter with the primordial sublime,” said Ruth Grover, curator of Cress Gallery.
One of Pedigo’s goals with this exhibit is to illustrate how the importance of a tangible object to its owner is determined by how well it is preserved. Further, he wants to stress how the owner’s attitudes and ideas relate to the object.
“In other words, the subjects of our culture’s posterity are a living record of what information has survived over time and been preserved by people because it held some importance to them,” he said.