REVERB Gallery presents Marginalia, a two-person show of small works in conversation with the layered modes of existence within our local habitats. Together Kenny Jensen and Lauren Nelson explore the periphery of the natural world, bypassing conventional landscapes in favor of strange and often contradictory phenomenon. Echoing the forms of illuminated manuscripts and early scientific field notes, each “page” offers the viewer a window into the artists’ real and imagined observations. Here, patterns and shapes reverberate between the microscopic and the global, the recognizable and the obscure. Some works build in dense layers, others through acts of erasure and removal. Glimpses of found materials record evidence of a human presence, inviting the viewer to look closely for moments of chaos and clarity, comfort and confusion.
Opening reception April 16 from 6 to 9 p.m.