Published on 1/16/2024.
College of the Redwoods presents: CRy-Baby, by Nancy Tobin - A psychological landscape and self-portrait exploring connections between space, past, and the future self
On-campus gallery show, Tuesday, January 30 through Thursday, March 23
College of the Redwoods is thrilled to announce a new multi-media installation and perceptual experience by Nancy Tobin in and around the Floyd Bettiga Gallery on College of the Redwoods’ new Creative Arts Complex. The exhibit will open Tuesday, January 30th and run through Friday, March 1st, 2024. A public reception and artist talk will be held in the gallery on Wednesday, February 7th, 2-5 pm.
Well-known Humboldt County installation artist, Nancy Tobin describes her fantastic vision of the 200-foot-long, fringed, umbilical cord that runs from the auditorium to the gallery in this exhibition. As you draw closer, she explains, you feel as if you are getting smaller. The cord winds through the courtyard, twisting and turning. You slip under the brush to enter the gallery and find yourself in someone else's dream world, both strange and alluring. Stuffed and beaded figures play and struggle on a topsy-turvy, surreal landscape of corn kernel carpets and shingled mountains. Lace curtains hang where no windows are found. In Cry-Baby mystery gives way to meaning.
Admission to the Floyd Bettiga Gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday through Thursday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., and by appointment. For more information, visit www.redwoods.edu/artgallery.