A Rake's Progress

Through December, free, Brolo Hill Farm, 8480 Hagy's Mill Road, 215-482-7300, schuylkillcenter.org.

by Brion Shreffler

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Published: Jun 30, 2009

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Inspired by mid-19th-century farm equipment, Gary Miller used felled tree limbs to construct "living line drawings," applying less than a gallon of paint and a small bottle of glue. He was reluctant to apply the adhesive — the rake sculptures, as with all of his large conceptual works, will be completely recycled at show's end. Each of Miller's eight rakes, installed outdoors at the Schuylkill Center's Brolo Hill Farm, corresponds to a major element in William Hogarth's painting series A Rake's Progress — a dead father, an inheritance, an inflated ego, a prison sentence — nicely juxtaposing clashing themes of greed and conservation.

Through December, free, Brolo Hill Farm, 8480 Hagy's Mill Road, 215-482-7300, schuylkillcenter.org.

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