As a young student abroad, Kath Girdler Engler became enamored with the art and architecture of Europe. Buy she began an affair to remember with a more unlikely suitor: the region's centuries-old ruins. The Natural Preservation of Form presents a body of new work that finds Engler exploring both the discovery of sculptural form and the way the corrosive effects of time and war can reveal the inner beauty of a work of art, even while obliterating its exterior characteristics.
Aug. 15-Nov. 1, 2008