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Systems of Becoming
Systems of Becoming brings together nine residency artists from the Project Studio Program 2024鈥�2025. This culminating exhibition of the year-long residency, held at PS122 Gallery, centers on an overarching theme: the investigation of evolving relationships between intuition and structure, memory and material, and the personal and the planetary. The artists鈥� diverse practices鈥攔anging from painting, sculpture, and installation to printmaking and animation鈥攄raw on internal and external systems to shape, resist, and transform selfhood, design, and implication.
Some of these artists explore deeply personal histories that echo broader social and cultural shifts, with the body as a conduit of personal and generational memory. Luo Min鈥檚 nearly six- meter-long scroll painting traces the rupture and resilience of maternal bonds, merging traditional Chinese aesthetics with collage and text. John Kelly鈥檚 hand-drawn graphic memoir transforms autobiographical performance work鈥攃entered on an obsession with Caravaggio, a trapeze injury, and queer survival鈥攊nto a layered visual opera of grief and renewal. Kakyoung Lee鈥檚 stop-motion animations emerge from cycles of erasure and redrawing, revealing the quiet, invisible rhythms of everyday life at the margins. Loup Sarion casts urban residue and bodily fragments into layered sculptures that feel at once sensual and archaeological, evoking desire and intimacy through materials with lived pasts. Katherine Bowling鈥檚 landscape and abstract paintings, rendered on spackled surfaces, express her love of nature and reflect inner and outer states of selfhood.
In contrast, other artists engage with structural logic through abstract visual language, exploring complex ideas鈥攕cientific, spiritual, or personal. Daniel G. Hill鈥檚 modular MDF sculptures鈥攃onstructed using strapping, buckling, and hinges鈥攄raw inspiration from 19 th 鈥� century mechanical systems and childhood toys, testing the precarious and temporary nature of assembly through gravity and tension. Amy Myers builds symmetrical biomorphic imagery inspired by conceptual contemporary physics, creating a dynamic visual cosmology鈥攁n imagined system that seeks truth between humanity and the universe. Dannielle Tegeder鈥檚 architectonic abstractions blend speculative underground city plans with spiritual geometries, creating diagrams of unseen infrastructure, feminist utopias, and collaborative trance states. Shira Toren creates evocative abstract paintings that eschew brushes, employing a meticulous process of layering acrylic paint, graphite, Venetian plaster, and removable painter鈥檚 tape to reveal surfaces that echo the natural world.
The exhibition coalesces around two broad sensibilities: one group embraces emotionally charged, figurative imagery that expands personal narratives into wider sociocultural concerns; the other engages abstraction to explore structural and conceptual systems. Here, 鈥渟ystems鈥� are not rigid frameworks, but unfolding inquiries鈥攚ays of navigating memory and trauma, constructing form, and imagining alternate futures. These artists work with systems both inherited and invented, personal and collective, to articulate a state of flux. In this space,becoming is both collaborative and continual.
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Systems of Becoming brings together nine residency artists from the Project Studio Program 2024鈥�2025. This culminating exhibition of the year-long residency, held at PS122 Gallery, centers on an overarching theme: the investigation of evolving relationships between intuition and structure, memory and material, and the personal and the planetary. The artists鈥� diverse practices鈥攔anging from painting, sculpture, and installation to printmaking and animation鈥攄raw on internal and external systems to shape, resist, and transform selfhood, design, and implication.
Some of these artists explore deeply personal histories that echo broader social and cultural shifts, with the body as a conduit of personal and generational memory. Luo Min鈥檚 nearly six- meter-long scroll painting traces the rupture and resilience of maternal bonds, merging traditional Chinese aesthetics with collage and text. John Kelly鈥檚 hand-drawn graphic memoir transforms autobiographical performance work鈥攃entered on an obsession with Caravaggio, a trapeze injury, and queer survival鈥攊nto a layered visual opera of grief and renewal. Kakyoung Lee鈥檚 stop-motion animations emerge from cycles of erasure and redrawing, revealing the quiet, invisible rhythms of everyday life at the margins. Loup Sarion casts urban residue and bodily fragments into layered sculptures that feel at once sensual and archaeological, evoking desire and intimacy through materials with lived pasts. Katherine Bowling鈥檚 landscape and abstract paintings, rendered on spackled surfaces, express her love of nature and reflect inner and outer states of selfhood.
In contrast, other artists engage with structural logic through abstract visual language, exploring complex ideas鈥攕cientific, spiritual, or personal. Daniel G. Hill鈥檚 modular MDF sculptures鈥攃onstructed using strapping, buckling, and hinges鈥攄raw inspiration from 19 th 鈥� century mechanical systems and childhood toys, testing the precarious and temporary nature of assembly through gravity and tension. Amy Myers builds symmetrical biomorphic imagery inspired by conceptual contemporary physics, creating a dynamic visual cosmology鈥攁n imagined system that seeks truth between humanity and the universe. Dannielle Tegeder鈥檚 architectonic abstractions blend speculative underground city plans with spiritual geometries, creating diagrams of unseen infrastructure, feminist utopias, and collaborative trance states. Shira Toren creates evocative abstract paintings that eschew brushes, employing a meticulous process of layering acrylic paint, graphite, Venetian plaster, and removable painter鈥檚 tape to reveal surfaces that echo the natural world.
The exhibition coalesces around two broad sensibilities: one group embraces emotionally charged, figurative imagery that expands personal narratives into wider sociocultural concerns; the other engages abstraction to explore structural and conceptual systems. Here, 鈥渟ystems鈥� are not rigid frameworks, but unfolding inquiries鈥攚ays of navigating memory and trauma, constructing form, and imagining alternate futures. These artists work with systems both inherited and invented, personal and collective, to articulate a state of flux. In this space,becoming is both collaborative and continual.
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