Dennis Summers
Thoughts on Ray Vibrations
July 13–August 10, 2001
Two-person exhibition with Jason Jones.
Detroit-based artist Dennis Summers uses a contemporary (and sometimes ironic) approach to traditional folk iconography and its attendant materials.
Summers and Jones both employ different and perhaps more typically ‘American’ strategies for his treatment of folk traditions. Drawing from influences as diverse as Native American shamanism and experimental scientists Michael Faraday, Neils Bohrs, et al., Summers combines folk-inspired assemblages with high-tech devices. In making these ‘recombinant’ combinations, Summers offers up a new awareness of how science and technology have pervaded our contemporary cultural and spiritual existence.