On view at Laconia Gallery
November 1, 2023 - January 14, 2024
Sundays 1pm-4pm, First Fridays 6-8pm, and by appointment
Programming: (keep checking back for updates!)
Opening Reception: Friday, November 3rd, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Echo Bridge Cello Quartet Performance: Sunday, Nov 19, 2:00pm
First Friday Reception: December 1st, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Conversation with Ava Fedorov + special performance by Takahiro Yamamoto and Erik DeLuca: Tuesday, December 12th, 6:00pm
Closing Party + Performance/Installation Reveal: Saturday, January 13th, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Site-specific installation on view for one weekend only! January 13 - 14, 2024
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Exhibition Statement:
This body of work is the way you hold someone when you know you are losing them—when all the details suddenly come into sharp focus—the momentary suspension of time before the inevitable hits. I am holding nature in my arms in these works; dissolving into the wilds, the ocean, the dirt; reliving memories while releasing them; with landscape as self and as other. I am both the animal exuberantly coursing through unbroken forests and the pipeline that chases it, slicing at its tail, cleaving the earth, leaving only emptiness in my wake.
My work depicts landscapes as overlaid arrangements of life. They are meant to draw in and surround viewers through scale and multimedia layering. The contrast of broad stains of color and detailed minutiae creates depth while simultaneously calling attention to surface and structure. I use both lyricism and abstraction to conjure the inverted pain of only realizing the vast importance of something (in this case, life on earth as we have known it) the moment it vanishes.
My art practice attempts to demonstrate how we, humans, are mirrors of our environment as much as extensions of its ecologies. The devaluation of nature stems from the same extractive, colonizing systems that devalue non-western and feminist perspectives. I use art to address how these ways of knowing are implicitly woven into habitats that are shrinking from every direction, and how those who have been pushed to the margins of history are now pushed onto the front lines of climate calamity.
Thank you
This exhibition was made possible with support from the Mass Cultural Council and Laconia Gallery (and its mighty volunteers!)
Immense gratitude also goes out to the people who supported me in all formative stages of this work - you know who you are!
Laconia Gallery
433 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA, 02118