"Found and Not Lost" is a two-person show featuring artists David Bordett and Ron Bayuzick that will open on October 15, 2021. The exhibition will include mixed-media wall-mounted and sculptural works created by David during his visiting artist residency with Erie Arts & Culture. David's work will be exhibited alongside Ron's abstract paintings and mixed media wall-mounted and sculptural works. Though several generations apart, David and Ron formed a kinship over a shared love of outsider culture and things built to move fast.

Open October 15 through October 29th in our main gallery

David Bordett (b. 1991) grew up in an 18th century log home in Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains surrounded by his father’s eclectic collections of dubious provenance acquired at farm house estate sales including primitive instruments, tin toys, and a vertebrae bone from a whale allegedly hunted by the Essex, the ship fictionalized in the book Moby Dick. He received his BFA from the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media at VCU in 2013, and shortly thereafter moved to New Orleans to continue his practice. Following a flood in the Summer of 2017 that severely damaged the contents of his studio he moved to Brooklyn, New York where he lived and worked until the arrival of COVID-19 in Spring 2020. He is now a student in the Graduate Sculpture Program at Yale pursuing his MFA. David’s work explores the role of the journey in the collective imagination and the abstract nuances of longing, searching for, or witnessing something hidden in experience. This often invokes the visual language of roadside attractions, regional music forms, and other Americana connected to the underbelly of the American experience. Bordett has been included in exhibitions at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Contemporary Art Center, and The Front Gallery in New Orleans, Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, and Orgy Park in Brooklyn.