Cara Despain: Cast Set at Emerson Dorsch Gallery

Through July 31, 2014

Exploiting tropes of the American West that are embedded in our collective psyche, Cara’s work conveys a doubling of mythos that is nostalgic, eerie, and dimly familiar. In Cast Set she constructs a world that at once embodies the type of optimism associated with the new frontier, and the loss that colors its inevitable settlement. She uses concrete, salt, and fools gold (pyrite ore) to reference the reconfiguring of land for mining, the promise of gold that conflates with a promise of salvation and religious freedom, and the certain disappointment of false hope.

Cara Despain (b.1983, Salt Lake City, Utah) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Utah. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Central Utah Art Center, Salt Lake City Biennial, Art Platform (Los Angeles), Torrance Art Museum, Jancar Gallery (Los Angeles), Pierogi Gallery (Brooklyn), For Your Art (Los Angeles), and Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami). Despain was selected for the Salt Lake City Mayor Award in the visual arts in 2012. She founded and operated GARFO Art Center in Salt Lake City, 2009-11. Cara lives and works in Miami.

Emerson Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24th St
Miami, Fl 33127
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