Anemometer

Inman Gallery is pleased to open the gallery's 26th season with the exhibition   

Demetrius Oliver: Anemometer.  The show will occupy the Main and South galleries, as well as areas customarily kept separate from the main exhibition space. This will be Oliver's fifth solo show with Inman, opening Friday, September 11th with a reception from 6:00 to 8:00pm. The show will be on view through October 24th.

For almost a decade, Demetrius Oliver has been charting a domestic cosmology, finding analogues to celestial bodies in the modest fixtures of terrestrial life. A paperclip might stand in for a constellation, a teakettle for a rotating orb in space. The multifaceted environments, comprising sculpture, photography and video, speak to the many ways we understand and relate to our environment. 

Oliver's point of reference for Anemometer is Jupiter's Great Red Spot, an enormous hurricane wide enough to swallow the Earth several times over.  An anemometer measures wind-speed, and most of the work in the show alludes to air, in either material or function.  Cast resin facsimiles of turbine ventilators, gusty atmospheric drawings made from umbrella parts, and storm shutters arranged to create a spiraling route through the exhibition fill the gallery space with a swirling momentum, conjuring the grandeur and violence of storms halfway across the solar-system as well as those, disastrously, much closer at hand.