OPENING: Norwood Viviano mines the past in second solo exhibition at Heller Gallery

Opening this evening at Heller Gallery in New York City will be a solo exhibtion of recent glass works of Norwood Viviano entitled "Mining Industries." The second solo exhibition by the Alfred graduate (BFA) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA, Sculpture), the exhibition features 11 rapid-prototyped cast-glass works based on the topography of three U.S. cities over time -- Detroit, Houston, and Seattle. By layering the present over previous topographies, these works seek to capture the growth or decay of each cities primary industries in hopes of sparking consideration of the ways of looking at change over time and its meaning, which is somewhat obscured by the process of layering.

In her catalog essay, Susie Silbert writes: “Today maps appear as impartial arbiters of the surrounding world. But theorists such as David Turnbull maintain that ‘maps should be seen as “knowledge spaces” constructed by specialists—politicians, scientists and geographers, mathematicians and cartographers—in service of a particularized point of view.’
 

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