At a 2006 Kohler Residency, he fabricated five bright red, life-size V8 car engines, which were suspended from the ceiling on chains as an installation entitled The Last of the V8s this piece has been exhibited in Chicago, Sheboygan, Michigan, and Bellevue, Washington. As a master practitioner of architectural and technical ceramics, Packer speaks simultaneously of the intimate and the grandiose. She ventures thus into an edgier, but somehow still lush and lyrical, sampling of the “incommensurable narratives” described by art theorist Terry Smith in his studied definition of the contemporary.ĭavid Packer’s sculptures, drawings, and wall collages evince a wry belief in the ability of both physical presence and imagery to influence the viewer’s relationship to information-political, cultural, technological, and through these, textual. Here, Lanzetta overlaidMorrocan zellij patterns adopted from the Royal Palace in Fez (printed in a Hindi palette of deep pinks and orange), onto fragments of Diasporic mosque floor plans. In her multi-paneled silkscreen entitled “Dharma Index,” Lanzetta really hits her mark. These paintings reference the imprinted stamps used historically in China to signify and identify imperial patronage. To create many of the paintings on view in her exhibition, Reign Marks, Lanzetta employed a universal interlocking knot pattern found in Celtic, Roman, Byzantine, Chinese, and Arabic decoration, chopping, slicing, and reworking the basic knot as a formal device. In 2009, for example, she traveled throughout Syria and India in order to research the historical development of ikat weaving, both technically and visually, along the Spice Route. As Lanzetta has fed her increasingly omnivorous appetite from an ever-widening field of visual cultures, however, she has also dug deeper into these sources’ histories, exploring how form speaks to notions of aesthetics, power, and beauty. Before we can identify the origin of a motif or trope, we adopt, own, manipulate, and communicate that which we seem to seamlessly absorb-using visual impact to our own ends.
Lanzetta’s paintings and prints have always asserted that imagery, design, and decoration travel effortlessly amongst countries and across periods of time. While the artists both work freely with found motifs and imagery-Western and otherwise-the ways in which they do so incorporate the historic and the contemporary with a directness that bypasses obscurantism and, at these artists’ best, the romantic. Having just returned to New York from nine months of working in Morocco, interfacing with a country that is “emerging” into the global contemporary art world, neither Packer nor Lanzetta is unaccustomed to functioning outside of his or her element, and it’s not their practice to escape. She alerted relatives, who immediately called police.On View Le Cube, Independent Art Room March 16 – Rabat, Morocco But in January 2010, she said, she looked at David Packer's phone and found photos and videos showing him sexually abusing the other foster daughter. He noted she maintained custody of Grace and her brother after David went to prison.Ĭrystal Rodack, a third former foster daughter, spent only a few months in the Packer home. Sara Packer's lawyer said he has not yet seen police or child-welfare files from the 2010 investigation of David Packer, and does not have evidence that his client was involved in wrongdoing. The AP is withholding the name of the woman because she is a victim of sexual abuse. The abused foster daughter, now 25, told the AP that the sexual abuse by David Packer began when she was 15, shortly after she moved into the home, and went on for years. Sara and her husband at the time, David Packer, fostered dozens of children before David was arrested in 2010 and sent to prison for sexually assaulting Grace and a 15-year-old foster daughter at their home in Allentown, about an hour north of Philadelphia. Business Services at Non-Commercial SiteĢ2227 James Alan Cir, Chatsworth, CA 91311.Manufacturing & Sale of Hydrogen Boostin Mfg Biological Products Plating/Polishing Service.Kumon Mundelein Vernon Hills Math & Reading Centerħ26 S Butterfield Rd, Hoffman Estates, IL 60060 Water Treatment Equipment,Service & Suppliesġ642 Westwood Blvd 3Rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024ġ642 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024.