Presented by Mills Pond House Gallery

Work by Greg Sand and Billy Renklwill exhibit January 16 - February 12, 2016. Greg Sand is an artist and photographer from Clarksville, TN who explores the issues of existence, time and death. He primarily produces work that addresses the nature of photography and its role in defining reality. The work in this exhibit are collaborations with artist Billy Renkl, Professor of art, drawing and illustration at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. In our own culture, at least, the practice of making art is often an exclusively self-referential activity. The popular model is for the artist to disappear into their attic of anguish, emerging eventually with a personal, insular, self-referential triumph. Or, often, not. Collaboration favors regard over self-regard, conversation over solitude, and empathy over self-expression. It is, really, a relief to have a voice outside of oneself to ratify what is effective and clarify what is not. Though both of us primarily work with found imagery, the way we use it is quite different. (One of us emphasizes accrual, for instance; the other often employs subtraction.) Even so, working together has been surprisingly easy, calling to mind the old adage, “Many hands make light work.”