Save the Date | Robert Craig Bunch + Artists Book Signing 2:00-4:00pm | Reception: May 17th from 5:00-7:00pm
Ward Sanders explores the lingering presence of music through the physical remnants of early 20th-century instruments in "Piano Pieces". The concept of the exhibition emerged after Sanders dismantled two upright pianos and an old pump organ from this era of the early 1900s; he was struck by the sense that the soul of the music still resided in their worn and weathered parts. The interplay of the observable and the imagined forms the foundation for "Piano Pieces"; with this body of work, Sanders seeks to restore a sense of dignity and presence to the once-sounding mechanisms. Drawing on the structure and repetition found in musical composition, each piece becomes a visual opus—a variation on a theme—assembled from the same source materials and united by a quiet reverence for their shared history. The result is a visual symphony—works that resonate with memory, materiality, and the silent echo of sound once played.
