Artist Talk: Nancy Tobin
The Black Faun Gallery presents D•STATE, a group show of Surrealist work by sculptural installation artist, Nancy Tobin; collage artist, Curtis Patrick Arnold; and painter, Carin Billings from May 5 - 26, 2018. An Artist Talk with Nancy Tobin will take place on Thursday, May 17 at 6:00 p.m. Feminine figures populate darkly beautiful collages by Curtis Patrick Arnold and paintings and drawings of Carin Billings at the entrance of Nancy Tobin’s meandering neon dreamscape installation, My Pillow Falls. “My Pillow Falls is an idyllic, sensory dreamscape experiential filled with hand-made water features and growth formations that hosts ideas of survival, adaptation, self-reliance and living off the land with what’s at hand,” states Nancy. “As a military brat I experienced a great deal of displacement. My childhood was spent playing in the jungles and military bunkers on post-war Okinawa, visiting living historical museums in Virginia, and adapting to the hostile desert climate of Arizona. I frequently turned to the landscape of my inner making. Residing there, I could keep everything I owned and no one ever parted. I modeled my lifestyle after Gilligan’s Island, where survival depended upon one’s own creative problem solving and everything was made by hand, preferably from bamboo. My sculptures and layered installations are an outgrowth of my urge to set up house with what is at hand in order to transport the viewer into a physical and psychological landscape of my imagination.” When Nancy Tobin is not running her Arcata clothing store, Vintage Avenger, she is often testing out hanging her large scale creations on abandoned RV’s and ruins on the Samoa Peninsula.
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