October 4, 2007—October 27, 2007 | Reception Thursday, October 4th, 6-8PM

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Katrina Moorhead. Dealing with themes of beauty, temporality, failure, and optimism, Moorhead’s exhibition will be anchored by a pair of beautifully crafted car doors. Monumentalizing Jon DeLorean’s controversial automobile factory in Belfast, the doors lay lifeless on the gallery floor. Constructed in the late 1970s and aided by British government incentives, the factory was designed at the height of political and religious tensions in the region. As such, the factory was designed with two entrances: one for Catholics and one for Protestants. Once inside, workers came together to assemble DeLorean’s highly futuristic sports car but, despite the joining of efforts, the plant was soon closed partly due to a poor business model and partly due to fraud that had gone undetected by DeLorean’s auditors. In the sculpture On or about December 1981, the artist lovingly recreates these gull wing doors out of wood. The abstracted forms and their gesture, akin to that of clipped wings, are a tribute to the workers and the events that loomed large while the artist was growing up in Northern Ireland.

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