The exhibition explores tragedy and sentimentality through objects and artifacts left behind in a disaster. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Karen Mahaffy
Karen Mahaffy has been making and exhibiting work in San Antonio since her grad student days at UTSA in the mid ’90s.
Geometric and exacting, early wall-hung pieces suggest a fascination with architecture and design, and how both bleed into one’s consciousness through proximity. Newer works are video-based exercises in subtlety.
Mahaffy’s measured hand creates singular, eerily beautiful explorations of space and place which build an anticipatory tension. In her latest opus, “Deluge,” on display through Sunday, April 26, at The Playhouse Gallery, the artist focuses on real-world events — the floods which battered central Texas last summer.
She explores tragedy and sentimentality through the objects we hold dear — the artifacts of lives ruined and lost.
Free, 1-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 26, and by appointment through April 26, The Playhouse Gallery, 306 Belknap Place, (210) 842-1314, playhouse.gallery.
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