2019 Exhibitions
Evelyn Twitchell
FIELD NOTES
October 3rd, 2019 - January 11th, 2020
FIELD NOTES
In these abstract paintings, I am taking note—of both the natural landscape outside my studio and my own interior landscape. I paint what resonates, not what I see.
I want my paintings to have the effect of a song or a poem: to build and linger; to capture a glimpse or memory; to strike chords and speak to the qualities of things. Not the appearance of the yard or the river or the sky, but the experience of patterns or light or mood. To renew an awareness of a moment in nature…
Standing in a yard in July watching fireflies.
Driving past desolate cornfields in winter.
Blue light at dusk.
Bark.
The heavy light of August.
Soft, pink spring light before the trees get their first green leaves.
Hanging fog.
An undulating swarm.
-Evelyn Twitchell
Kim Beck
ROCK, PAPER
July 11th - September 21st, 2019
The works on view are the result of Beck looking at and documenting the everyday landscape. Recorded through various techniques including rubbings, photographs, and prints, and engaging natural materials such as rocks, ink, mud, and rain, these works are all different ways of reaffirming: I am here; I exist. As Beck says, “everything is constantly shifting, changing, and particularly after my mother’s death, the only thing that feels stable is the tactility of the ground, the sense of it being touched and graspable. I continue to look down, to look at the ground beneath my feet, to remind myself of where I am. I bend down to make a print, to pick up a rock, to move a brick, to make a rubbing of the street in order to feel gravity, feel the pull of the earth, and hold on tight. And yet, everything is made of energy and matter, particles and fields and bits that are always moving, shifting, and disintegrating.” Beck’s works are constantly testing the solidity of the ground by exploring various ways of touching, while also proclaiming ground as unstable, forever both solid and shifting.
The act of printmaking, of making a copy or facsimile from an original, runs through all of these works. For Beck, the print is a trace of an action grounded by touch and feel. Rubbings of the road are copied and layered into thousands of Risograph prints, each one unique. Photographs of the road are woven together to create a new topography. Bricks from a demolished structure leave traces on paper, built up from rain and mud. A found rock becomes a salient object, akin to the Japanese suiseki rock appreciated for its aesthetic value; the black ink on its surface left behind after a series of prints, another trace of an implied, yet not visible, action. While works on paper are tenuous and fragile, the rock is solid.
Susanna Coffey
NIGHT PAINTING
April 4th - June 22nd, 2019
Kelly Knox & Marco Pinter
UNRAVELED
March 15th - March 21rd, 2019
Unraveled employs interactive media, string, and projections to explore movement and linearity. A sensor captures body movement, deconstructs it and re-projects it in elemental form, bereft of race, class, gender or nation, and often mixing bodies until the boundaries between people are no longer distinct. The performance explores the ephemeral, impermanent nature of dance, finding areas of permanence by using thousands of yards of string to record the performers’ motion. The room thus captures the residue of their movement over time in physical space.
The performers draw upon ancient but timeless themes: Fibers, threads, and narratives of weaving found in ancient Greek myths provided a means for women to control their environment, challenge the gods, measure life, save heroes, and even speak. Archetypal figures such as Penelope, Arachne, Ariadne, and the three Fates used string and thread, exploring themes of unraveling life and fate that have relevance across the centuries.
SURREALISM
November 1st, 2018 - February 24th, 2019