From the press release:
Hailing from different cultural and artistic backgrounds, artists Kevin “Spanky” Long and Nina Milner examine their diverse creative origins through a practice of visual dialogue. While both artists make occasional appearances in one another’s independent work, a collaborative component steers Long and Milner on a more abstract track as they work in response to and in support of one another’s creative instincts.

Long’s preoccupation with the animal kingdom actualizes in stream of consciousness illustrations of imagined creatures. To further their fantastical nature, Long works with brush and ink to categorize the critters that populate his unconscious. Being from another country, Milner investigates notions of vulnerability and personal identity. Working figuratively with paper in the forms of sculpture and negative paper cut outs, Milner balances her predisposed tendency for intricacy with a new found surrender to the unanticipated.

“Spanky and Nina: Drawings and Sculpture” by Kevin Long and Nina Milner runs January 18 through February 15, 2012, at Fuse Gallery.

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