01 - Main Space

Imago

Narda Ray

October 16 - November 8

Opening Reception October 18 @ 6PM

01 - Exhibition Statement

In entomological terms, 'Imago' refers to an insect's fully developed adult stage. This title speaks to the transformation away from my family's values, emerging into my adult principles. As a parent, I naturally expose my child to my biases, meaning transformation will also occur with my child as part of his growth. Using the destructive process of papermaking, the Christian bible is transformed from a legible text to a variety of new creations. This process and the choice of materials challenge the overly simplistic binary value system: good or bad, heaven or hell, growth or decay. 

02 - Artist Statement

My formative years were spent immersed in the indoctrination of the church and the Christian bible which helped form societal ideas of patriarchy through gender roles, dictating to me - a girl in the church - expectations of how I should present and use my body. My art is not only a critique of childhood indoctrination but it is also a memorial of what is lost through re-orientating away from these beliefs - a loss of identity and alienation from a community. Like my spiritual reorientation, the bibles I use in my art have experienced a transformation.

little deaths

Murray Wittmeier

October 16 - November 13

Opening Reception October 18 @6PM

02 - Exhibition Statement

As a genderqueer person I feel like I had to kill off many small parts of myself in order to make room for new parts of my identity to form. I use the idea of the clown as a vehicle to move through the confusing and uncomfortable feelings of not fitting in your body, and not fitting with the cis-hetero normativity that was imposed upon me. For me, gender is a performance that mimics that of a clown; putting on a face and costume to appease the masses.

01 - Artist Statement

The artist works primarily in the medium of ceramics, specifically wheel throwing. They make various miniature items ranging from jars to gravestones. They also create functional dinnerware; things like large coffee/soup mugs and bowls with graphic text on the surface. Favoring a dark color palette, the artist utilizes the magic of ceramics and the fire of the kiln to achieve dynamic surfaces, most notably metallics and bright reds. Inspired by concepts such as the human body/anatomy, mortality and morbidity, surrealism, and dollhouses, the artist aims to search for clarity and control over the uncontrollable and unknown. Through miniature scale, they navigate abject ideas and intense internal emotions.