Susan Tibbles Patricia Correia Gallery is proud to announce new work by Santa Barbara based artist Susan Tibbles in her fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Tibbles' assemblages operate on multiple levels simultaneously, combining text with metaphorical and literal objects to explore the specific relationship between art, experience and information. Her concerns range from the personal and familiar to the political and religious. Taken as a whole, Tibbles' work represents a complex patchwork of American society, and of the mechanisms by which we perceive ourselves. These jubilant mixed media assemblages are constructed from a fluid combination of found objects and original treatment. A sense of wit and a political consciousness coexist in the art work as well. Tibbles has a knack for creating visual puns, for assigning dual meanings to commonplace objects. This irony has its roots in the work of the early Surrealists, who experimented with creating images by randomly juxtaposing disconsonant objects, intending to expose alternate meanings through undermining contextual preconceptions. The strength of her work is the unique ways in which bits of evidence are refashioned into icons of American culture. Tibbles has recently exhibited at the Riverside Art Museum, CA in 1988; Long Beach Museum of Art, CA in 1997; Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA in 1995 as well as the Reynolds Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA from 1992-98; Sylvia White Gallery, NYC, NY in 1999; Art Institute of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA in 2000 and Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA in 2000.