Laura Gerscovich
ARTISTA VISUAL
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Black Light Dawn
September 14, 2011
by Carla Harms
Mite openings always have onda. This past Friday’s opening of Laura Gerscovich was no exception. Before reaching the exhibition, I could hear the music of Carisma flooding from Mite’s end of Patio del Liceo. But that’s not all. I arrived just as incense was being lit and the lights were getting shut down to expose a different side of Gerscovich’s multimedia show — a side that appeared only under black lighting. The sights, the sounds, the smells — that’s onda. And like I said, that’s Mite.And the onda couldn’t have been better suited to the theme of Gerscovich’s show, titled El Amanecer del Sexto Sol (The Dawn of the Sixth Sun). Based on designs of sacred geometry and the concept of the flower of life, Gerscovich’s multimedia work has a distinct spiritual feel to it. Colorful drawings, lit sculptures delicately and impressively rendered in ceramic, combine with images and texts that appear and disappear
depending on the type of light.
The sculptures impressed me no matter what lighting they appeared in, and during my brief chat with Gerscovich I learned that was in fact her major in art school. It shows. I could barely stop myself from reaching out to touch the feathers on the bird, and I wasn’t the only one. And under the ultraviolet lights, her ceramic trees created a magical forest surrounded by sparkling gemstones. I had just gotten talking to her about the Age of Aquarius when it was time for a live happening to start that involved a sacred-looking book and pens with ink that glowed under the black lights as well as day-glow tattoos. There’s no doubt about it, this show is groovy.