We are all a body. Both singular entities and a collective. We are defined by our inclusion in and our defiances of the society that engulfs us. Our identities, our actions, our bodies: they are never our own, because our every action is filtered through another’s perception, a lens of expectation and control. We are defined by our adherence to heritage, femininity, and responsibility. We are driven to find ourselves, define ourselves, identify what makes us unique; but that drive too comes from the social world we inhabit. Being the Other and Between brings together the work of four women artists exploring the relationships between individual identity and the collective and the process of making art and making one’s self.
Aria Brownell’s vivid oil paintings capture images of intimacy and personal memory. Her paintings are an articulation of the desire to reimagine an already written biography. Painting with fine details with iridescent hues, she creates hyper-realistic hyper-fixated windows into another’s physicality.
Aubree Dale’s maximalist ecosystem paintings record the memory and promise of an individual’s expectations within our large, modern social networks. She reflects this modern world and traps time through textural disorienting scenes of obsessive mark making layered with homemade bioplastics.
Barbara Miñarro evokes the weight and strain of the bodies in migration. Originally from Monterrey, Mexico, her soft sculpture installations utilize the tactile memory of clothing, the earth and the physical body to express the emotional journey of immigration.
Wendy Rhode’s process based painting approach reveals dualities of figures and patterns with identities of their own. Building on layers of printed floral monotypes she uses color exploration and abstract marks to create a hypnotizing feast of forms.
Join us on Friday, March 1st from 6–9pm for the opening reception.
