For Immediate Release: OCTOBER 23, 2010

Contact: Sarah Eberle/Ben Will

Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art is proud to present Crypsis, an exhibition of installation and mixed media collage by artist Jackie Hoving. Crypsis by definition is the ability of an organism to avoid observation. Hoving's work incorporates painting, printmaking, and collage and engages in the concealing and revealing of images through patterns and layers, weaving together images to create a camouflaged, non-linear narrative.

For this installation, Hoving will create a large-scale cut paper collage analyzing the strategies and ramifications of the hunt. Stemming from childhood memories growing up in rural Michigan where hunting was prevalent, Hoving views Nature as a stage for fantasy, and at the same time the location of violent and visceral realities. Often depicting natural or semi-abstract elements, Hoving addresses the instinctual and social conditions between animals and humans. The artwork is less a celebration of the natural world, than an analysis of the circumstances between the hunt and the landscape and animals that are unwilling participants.

Crypsis opens on Thursday, November 11 with a private view with the artist from 6 to 9 pm. The exhibition closes on Saturday, December 18, 2010.

"Among all these evolutionary achievements, perhaps none are more important, more widely used, and more highly developed, than those characters which serve to elude, to attract, or to deceive the eye, so to facilitate escape from enemies or the pursuit of prey."

-- Hugh Cott

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