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Christine Tarkowsk: Chthonic Void
devening projects + editions is very pleased to invite you
to Chthonic Void, Christine Tarkowski鈥檚 first
solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring dramatic new glass, steel and
printed works, Chthonic Void is the result of recent studio and residency
projects completed during the past year. Please join us for the opening and a
catalog release on Sunday, April 3 from 4-7 pm. The exhibition continues until
May 14, 2016.
From his 2016 essay for the catalog that accompanies Chthonic Void, Jeremy
Biles writes:
鈥淐hthonic Void: the fullness of nothing, the nullity of the
idea of totalizing unity, a body of imminently shatterable works, the work of
shattering鈥攂ody, psyche, matter鈥�.
Tarkowski鈥檚 work in glass emerges from the chthonic void. In her hands, glass
is a chthonic medium鈥攏ot just because it derives from the earth (the ultimate
source of all mediums), but also because glass generates chthonic associations,
especially as related to process: glass is heated in the belly of a furnace; it
emerges glowing and flowing like magma; it is a moving vision of amorphous,
excessive life.
Tarkowski鈥檚 art reminds us that even the ground is shaky, every surface an
indication of earthly depths: chaotic, chthonic. Each sculptural piece in this
show constitutes a small debacle, gorgeous in its ruinous lineaments and the
swells of its soft geometries, delicate in its structural and material
instability.
In fact, Tarkowski鈥檚 art exploits the allure and power of the precarious鈥攖he precariousness of frangible glass and fragile lines, of the unforeseeable and contingent. This is sculpture that positively courts precariousness, bodying forth a willingness to oppose, defy, and refuse those structures, conditions, and habits of thought and behavior whose presumed certitudes鈥攚hose very stability鈥攖oo often produce and maintain oppressive relations and moribund politics.鈥�
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devening projects + editions is very pleased to invite you
to Chthonic Void, Christine Tarkowski鈥檚 first
solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring dramatic new glass, steel and
printed works, Chthonic Void is the result of recent studio and residency
projects completed during the past year. Please join us for the opening and a
catalog release on Sunday, April 3 from 4-7 pm. The exhibition continues until
May 14, 2016.
From his 2016 essay for the catalog that accompanies Chthonic Void, Jeremy
Biles writes:
鈥淐hthonic Void: the fullness of nothing, the nullity of the
idea of totalizing unity, a body of imminently shatterable works, the work of
shattering鈥攂ody, psyche, matter鈥�.
Tarkowski鈥檚 work in glass emerges from the chthonic void. In her hands, glass
is a chthonic medium鈥攏ot just because it derives from the earth (the ultimate
source of all mediums), but also because glass generates chthonic associations,
especially as related to process: glass is heated in the belly of a furnace; it
emerges glowing and flowing like magma; it is a moving vision of amorphous,
excessive life.
Tarkowski鈥檚 art reminds us that even the ground is shaky, every surface an
indication of earthly depths: chaotic, chthonic. Each sculptural piece in this
show constitutes a small debacle, gorgeous in its ruinous lineaments and the
swells of its soft geometries, delicate in its structural and material
instability.
In fact, Tarkowski鈥檚 art exploits the allure and power of the precarious鈥攖he precariousness of frangible glass and fragile lines, of the unforeseeable and contingent. This is sculpture that positively courts precariousness, bodying forth a willingness to oppose, defy, and refuse those structures, conditions, and habits of thought and behavior whose presumed certitudes鈥攚hose very stability鈥攖oo often produce and maintain oppressive relations and moribund politics.鈥�
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