Dowser's Delight: Divining the Inner Cartographic Impulse

New work by Val Britton, Mark Mulroney, Chris Pew, and Casey Jex Smith

August 4 - September 30, 2006

First Friday Reception: September 1st, 7-10pm

Curated by Alex Munn and John Casey

The Front Gallery is proud to present a new show of drawings and paintings that divines a course into a cosmos of the esoteric.

The practice of dowsing dates to the beginning of written history as a method of uncovering hidden substances, usually pertaining to minerals, gold, and water. If art making is, in essence, "dowsing" for internal buried-treasure, then the four artists in this show are intuitively digging in the right place. Each of the participants has documented their search and left us with exhaustive cartographic evidence, circuitously leading us to the place where X marks the spot.