Rachel Grobstein & Jayne Struble: Gateways and Habitats
Grizzly Grizzly is pleased to announce our third artist-in-residence exhibit this season which features the work of Philadelphia-based artists Rachel Grobstein and Jayne Struble. In Gateways and Habitats Grobstein and Struble reveal their propensity toward process and research. Both artists are gleaners: they gather objects and detritus from their surroundings as a way to understand the character of a place and/or person. This tactile searching opens gateways to new ways of being in the world and demonstrates the wonder and appreciation both artists have of seeing habitats, walkways, personal effects and cityscapes as sites for deep investigation into the unknowable.
Earlier this year Grobstein used the gallery as a research studio in order to consider how and why humans imbue objects with meaning. Referencing what she gleaned from writings on ufology, religion, and personal rituals, she created a series of miniature paper sculptures and paintings based on sightings of unidentified flying objects, relics from the religious movement Heaven's Gate, and photos of friends' personal items hanging from rearview mirrors in automobiles. By playing with scale, Grobstein transforms artifacts from speculative sources into 鈥渨indow(s) through which we might view other worlds.鈥� (Pasulka, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology).
While Grobstein reinterprets objects that are highly valued in particular contexts, Struble is preoccupied with the accumulations of human detritus, both manufactured building materials and discarded objects easily found in urban spaces. Using the camera to collect images during her walks between her home and studio, Struble contemplates the ordinary physical reality in which we live through the lens of animism. During her residency, she used her recorded observations as source material to inform her videos and large-scale graphite drawings. In Gateways and Habitats, Struble exhibits her new video collages which are poetic and layered, and focus on the relationship between the human world and the physical world. Seeing herself as part of the environment, her work gives the castoff objects and spaces new life and emotional value, activating the agency of material phenomena.
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Grizzly Grizzly is pleased to announce our third artist-in-residence exhibit this season which features the work of Philadelphia-based artists Rachel Grobstein and Jayne Struble. In Gateways and Habitats Grobstein and Struble reveal their propensity toward process and research. Both artists are gleaners: they gather objects and detritus from their surroundings as a way to understand the character of a place and/or person. This tactile searching opens gateways to new ways of being in the world and demonstrates the wonder and appreciation both artists have of seeing habitats, walkways, personal effects and cityscapes as sites for deep investigation into the unknowable.
Earlier this year Grobstein used the gallery as a research studio in order to consider how and why humans imbue objects with meaning. Referencing what she gleaned from writings on ufology, religion, and personal rituals, she created a series of miniature paper sculptures and paintings based on sightings of unidentified flying objects, relics from the religious movement Heaven's Gate, and photos of friends' personal items hanging from rearview mirrors in automobiles. By playing with scale, Grobstein transforms artifacts from speculative sources into 鈥渨indow(s) through which we might view other worlds.鈥� (Pasulka, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology).
While Grobstein reinterprets objects that are highly valued in particular contexts, Struble is preoccupied with the accumulations of human detritus, both manufactured building materials and discarded objects easily found in urban spaces. Using the camera to collect images during her walks between her home and studio, Struble contemplates the ordinary physical reality in which we live through the lens of animism. During her residency, she used her recorded observations as source material to inform her videos and large-scale graphite drawings. In Gateways and Habitats, Struble exhibits her new video collages which are poetic and layered, and focus on the relationship between the human world and the physical world. Seeing herself as part of the environment, her work gives the castoff objects and spaces new life and emotional value, activating the agency of material phenomena.
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