Metamorphosis

Jennifer Lillis and Christopher Kardambikis

Joram Piatigorsky Gallery at The Writer’s Center
June 1 – August 28, 2023

In Metamorphosis, GMU Art and Design Professors Jennifer Lillis and Christopher Kardambikis recast familiar, static forms from antiquity in the soft, accessible material of paper pulp. Through iteration and play, the artists re-collage and remix ancient myths and deities to craft a new, and newly strange, narrative space.

In 2005 and 2006, George Mason University acquired a collection of nearly 70 plaster replicas from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Since then, the turn of the century plaster casts of classical sculptures have haunted the School of Art hallways, stairwells, and storage closets while Mason has been working on a more permanent home. For years, a massive copy of Lapith and Centaur – originally cast from the West Pediment at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia – has been tucked away at the base of the School of Art stairwell, often overlooked by students and faculty. Next to this piece, under moving blankets, rests two casts from the Parthenon Frieze.

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