ARTISTS
The Hole in the Fence
Everybody is excited to host American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings for the exhibition The Hole in the Fence, featuring Gwen Hollingsworth, Drew Miller, Novi Penney, zenas proa, and Kid Violet. The show features artists based in Arizona, California, and New Mexico.
鈥淎 miniature metal carousel horse is mounted on a small wooden box. After releasing a couple of windups to the gearbox below, the horse starts to turn slowly to the thin metal tune of 鈥淭he Impossible Dream (The Quest)鈥�. The horse is bound by not just the box but its carousel pole. The thin tune, still playing, holds the clicking rhythm of the horses turn, the horse in effect unable to trot, to graze, to stampede.
A chain-link fence on the edge of town partitions residents from personnel. Bolt cutters create the portal from one side to the other. For every outpouring an implied potential of containment, for every boundary an implied potential of boundlessness.
The works on display in The Hole in the Fence span across media: drawings, paintings, assemblage, ceramics, text, found object. Scrawled on the wall in their handwriting, the lyrics to Kid Violet鈥檚 deathwife set the tone for the exhibition: i am ridden with her ivy / she makes rubble of me / she says / get to know thyself / by wishing. In Gwen Hollingsworth鈥檚 intimate paintings, the metaphysical and omen-like images emerge out of the shadow void. Similarly mystical but visually teetering between light and darkness, Novi Penney鈥檚 colorful varied forms point to remnants of gestures from which the internal flows. Meanwhile, Drew Miller鈥檚 strategic renderings provide a paper trail for his visual research of experience and memory, a simultaneous preoccupation with form and estrangement from form鈥檚 origins. zenas proa鈥檚 glazed stoneware works ground the space into the three-dimensional realm and hold this weight accordingly. The visual motifs of proa鈥檚 works exist in direct reference to the Arbol de Vida and Circle of Friends, traditional Mexican candelabra silhouettes, along with abstract images translated from waking dreams, slumber, and early visions. Distinct yet overlapping strategies from these five artists yield both an expansion from and a tethering to the deeply personal. Intuition and fixation give way to an unearthing 鈥� both matter of life and matter of death.鈥� -American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings
Recommended for you
Everybody is excited to host American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings for the exhibition The Hole in the Fence, featuring Gwen Hollingsworth, Drew Miller, Novi Penney, zenas proa, and Kid Violet. The show features artists based in Arizona, California, and New Mexico.
鈥淎 miniature metal carousel horse is mounted on a small wooden box. After releasing a couple of windups to the gearbox below, the horse starts to turn slowly to the thin metal tune of 鈥淭he Impossible Dream (The Quest)鈥�. The horse is bound by not just the box but its carousel pole. The thin tune, still playing, holds the clicking rhythm of the horses turn, the horse in effect unable to trot, to graze, to stampede.
A chain-link fence on the edge of town partitions residents from personnel. Bolt cutters create the portal from one side to the other. For every outpouring an implied potential of containment, for every boundary an implied potential of boundlessness.
The works on display in The Hole in the Fence span across media: drawings, paintings, assemblage, ceramics, text, found object. Scrawled on the wall in their handwriting, the lyrics to Kid Violet鈥檚 deathwife set the tone for the exhibition: i am ridden with her ivy / she makes rubble of me / she says / get to know thyself / by wishing. In Gwen Hollingsworth鈥檚 intimate paintings, the metaphysical and omen-like images emerge out of the shadow void. Similarly mystical but visually teetering between light and darkness, Novi Penney鈥檚 colorful varied forms point to remnants of gestures from which the internal flows. Meanwhile, Drew Miller鈥檚 strategic renderings provide a paper trail for his visual research of experience and memory, a simultaneous preoccupation with form and estrangement from form鈥檚 origins. zenas proa鈥檚 glazed stoneware works ground the space into the three-dimensional realm and hold this weight accordingly. The visual motifs of proa鈥檚 works exist in direct reference to the Arbol de Vida and Circle of Friends, traditional Mexican candelabra silhouettes, along with abstract images translated from waking dreams, slumber, and early visions. Distinct yet overlapping strategies from these five artists yield both an expansion from and a tethering to the deeply personal. Intuition and fixation give way to an unearthing 鈥� both matter of life and matter of death.鈥� -American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings
Artists on show
What's on nearby
