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'From Below' on display at Lord Grizzly Gallery

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The work of installation artist David Hamlow is on display at Lord Grizzly Gallery through Feb. 23 in the Coffey Contemporary Arts exhibition and education facility on Main Street in Luverne.
 
Hamlow’s exhibit, “From Below,” addresses the cost and value of daily life in a consumer culture. Since 1996 Hamlow has been saving virtually all the packaging from everything he purchases, transforming it into a range of modular sculptures and collages that envelop the viewer in the results of a single career of consumption.
 
“We live in an age of increasingly higher stakes: political, social, environmental,” he said. “It can seem impossible that an individual could make a meaningful contribution to change.” He said “From Below” explores the surprising impact of one person, one action, and one encounter between two individuals. The exhibit is named for a quote by Noam Chomsky that says, “Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.”
 
Hamlow holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter and a master’s degree in fine arts in painting and drawing from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He lives and maintains a studio in Good Thunder and has exhibited work regionally, nationally and internationally.

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