Anno Domini presents...

Deerwood and the Coral Cavern - Opens June 2nd, 2006
a collaborative installation and performance by
C. Ryder Cooley & Jessie Rose Vala


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by Carolyn Ryder Cooley
by Jessie Rose Vala

An outer wooden reliquary leads you to an interior fantasy world of hand crafted wall paper and elaborately framed scenes. Throughout the installation, images of feral girl characters and modified animal creatures converge. Intertwining braids encircle feminine figures as their need for wildness grows beyond the realm of the imagination into their every day lives, making way for new visions of human and animal co-habitations.

The gallery is transformed by Ryder & Jessie into a mythological dream space where the hard, gritty surface of rescued woodgives way to a delicate paper lining covering the walls of a collaboratively envisioned structure.

Artist's Reception: First Friday, June 2nd, 2006
8 p.m. 'til late • free and open to the public
Special Performance: Accordion serenades will be performed by Ryder Cooley from the gallery rafters plus a collaborative story-telling performance by Jessie and Ryder will occur at 9pm initiating the indoor stage mural.

VIEW IMAGES FROM THE INSTALLATION & RECEPTION:
set 1 | set 2

Exhibit on view through July 22, 2006
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, noon 'til 8 p.m.