![]() |
![]() |
William Wiley’s untitled collage from 1960– an array of verbal and visual puns set against an altered image of a plane crash — speaks to the unforeseen consequences of technological progress. Gyöngy Laky, evoking flight’s more ethereal aspects, inserts a “flock” of pins into a wall to spell out the word “air.” Tom Marioni, with what is the exhibit’s most economical gesture, hangs a stack of paper from the ceiling, allowing it to assume the shape of a large wing. Richard Feese, an under-recognized Sacramento sculptor of extraordinary skill and imagination, fashions a fabulous bird out of aluminum, rubber and tin.
![]() |
metallic silver, it hangs menacingly from the rafters, looking, like a marriage of a seaplane and a crop duster.