Opening Reception on Wednesday 4/5, 4:30-6:30pm

Nancy Peel Gladwell’s paintings employ traditional modes of representation while contemplating contemporary issues of material consumption, digital and metaphysical resources. The show title is drawn from Kazuo Ishiguro’s award-winning book, “Remains of the Day,” where the butler/protagonist confronts shifting perspectives of personal memory and purpose. Her reading also extends the meanings and processes of understanding the multidimensional web as a similar form of remains. Gladwell explains that… “We all leave a sizable trail of discarded and misappropriated things as the detritus of every single moment. As in Ishiguro’s book, most are psychological, behavioral, unintended, or not, misunderstood or not. They are physical and physiological and represent transitions, cleansings, and restorations.”

Gladwell is an adjunct professor of Fine Arts at MxCC and has taught at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and Long Island University, C. W. Post. Her work is held in international public and private collections including the Heckscher Museum, Ft Wayne Museum and Parrish Museum.

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