'In the Moment'

At its heart, collage is fundamentally a surrealist technique, one that lets the artist time-travel, appropriating concepts and aesthetics at will. Moments are fleeting, but collage allows for new temporal frameworks. Recently opened at Burlington’s S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, this exhibition features the bricolage endeavors of Ashley Roark, Barbee Hauzinger and Christy Mitchell, showcase their unique mash-up styles. Roark works with personal ephemera, evoking delicacy and contemplation through careful consideration of texture and form. With her two series “Where You’d Want to Be” and “Age of Ads,” Hauzinger constructs imagined utopias and critiques the false promises of consumerism. Mitchell gleans imagery that originated in the 1940s through ’70s, comparing her scenes to “a still [from] an imagined movie.”