The new solo art show at Hartnell Gallery hardly makes a sound, but viewers might hear music in their heads as they roam around. Resampled & Rearranged is subtitled “Musical Objects Recomposed,” which is literally what it is.
Artist Nancy Sevier takes apart musical instruments and equipment, and rebuilds them into art pieces. She’s found them at Last Chance Mercantile or on the street; an organ was donated by a church for artists to pick apart.
On “Two-piano Duo, Ernest and Henry,” she started with two large format colorized photos of adolescent brothers and mounted them on a wall. Above that, a piano’s pin block with its strings hangs from it, forming a curtain in front of the brothers as if they’re in a kind of prison or behind a veil.
There is an artist statement in which Sevier shares her process and her intentions, though it gets lofty: “Perhaps the repurposing of their broken parts… functions as an act of healing and unity in today’s divisive times.”
The works are whimsical and nostalgic, in a found art/folk art kind of way.
“I love that people look at them and say ‘What were these?’ Young people have never seen 78s [records],” she says. “I love sharing the history of them.”
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