"Reorientation generally requires movement or progress from an original fixed point. In the work selected for this show, "the past" - not in terms of factual history, but instead a retro-image of the way things used to be as seen through 21st century eyes – functions as one initial reference. Commonplace subject matter like a shoe, a coffee cup, a for sale sign, a house, and an old photograph seem, at first glance, mundane and almost quaint in the high tech, fast-paced, anxious age we find ourselves in today, but the artists in Reorientation infuse the ordinary with a fresh complexity, offering unique viewpoints that link and entwine the past with the present.
A jumping off point for several of the artists in the show is subject matter that suggests an earlier time and the process of looking back. Mary Walker's prints, inspired by old-fashioned photos from a family album, have the elusive, yet familiar feeling of a frame from a classic film forever etched in the mind or the memory of a dream where the faces are blurred. Their generic nostalgia crystallizes simple moments, making them feel universal."
Lori Kornegay curator Reorientation, September 2007, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC
