Nancy Barton; Leslie Ernst; Erika Suderburg
Installation
Three sound and sculpture installations were shown recently at this artist-run alternative space in downtown San Diego, each of them with an underlying social and/or political theme. Nancy Barton’s The Power of a Singular Vision used a multimedia portrait of the artist's father to represent the clash between idealism and economic reality. Leslie Ernst’s Get Dressed played off the image of a typical department store dressing room to raise issues about the plight of garment workers. And Erika Suderburg’s Trip without Travel—Irrigation Channels commented on the propagandistic nature of the conventional