MECA Exhibition: Mind-bending with the Mundane

September 1 - October 17, 2010

Mind-bending with the Mundane is an exhibition occasioned by the fact that marriage equality remains a civil rights question in Maine, among other places. Three independent artists and one husband and husband team present the mundane realities of private lives for public examination in this exhibition curated by Adriane Herman, Associate Professor of Printmaking and Digital Imaging at Maine College of Art.

The exhibition will feature a wide variety of media such as photography, performance, performance residue, engravings, bureaucratic documents and installation. Miller & Shellabarger chart their lives in specific and mundane detail, documenting their ongoing joint presence in the world largely because their relationship is socially invisible at best, and renders them subject to discrimination or violence at worst. Andrew Raftery places contemporary life on display with old master authority in engravings depicting real estate open houses. Allison Smith reminds us that revolutionaries fighting for causes they find worthy can be bolstered by a resting place to proclaim and reflect upon their beliefs. Alix Lambert highlights the often fleeting nature of marriage by documenting the four weddings and divorces she undertook in six months, one of which took place in a drive-through Vegas wedding chapel.

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