Keith Lemley Exhibition

Keith Lemley’s new work features a grove of objects that have been carved with his chainsaw out of felled, dead ash trees decimated by the Emerald Ash Borer.  The shapes of the objects are based on the architecture and shapes of the trees themselves. A softer free-form geometry than some of his previous work, they visualize systems of layering, accumulation, connection, and transference.

In some places he has left visible the distinctive trails of the borer. Hand-bent white neon tubes accentuate the shapes and surfaces of the wood while imparting an ethereal atmosphere. Light, as both particle and wave, is simultaneously an extension of the object and an experiential phenomenon of the viewer and their senses. The neon and wood objects combine to create a forest installation that serves as a monument to loss.