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Yours or Mine
It鈥檚 easy to be seduced by Slanley鈥檚 slick, clean-edged surfaces. The near perfect symmetry of her plexi and hardware florals tap into our biological rules of attraction. As the creator of her own mythical world, Slaney crossbreeds 18th century botanical drawings, tattoo art, Buddhist iconography and ancient Japanese depictions of hell to create a world of inexhaustible variation. Zazueta is also building a world, one steeped in Mexican folklore, southern storytelling and Catholic ritual. In her travels she collects objects that make their way into altar-like tableaus, each one a dedication to magical thinking. The original objects are destroyed in the making of a 3D print, engaging in a cycle of death and rebirth where the rebirths are infinite. Inasmuch as a sculpture can transmit the divine, DeVane鈥檚 totems do so by channeling the power of the archetype. By employing mythical figures such as the mermaid, she invites interpretations of her work from different cultural perspectives, such as that of the Mami Wata, siren or selkie. DeVane frequently uses reflective and shiny objects to hold the spirit close to the earth, a tradition long found in West Africa, and later, the American South. Rather than reflecting light, Reeder鈥檚 larger-than-life neon drawing emits it. Neon conjures images of late night streets, Come In We鈥檙e Open, you can eat here, sleep here, dance here, play. Various promises of security and/or pleasure acquired in increments of time. Reeders work instead broadcasts desire in perpetuity, without a prescribed beginning or end. Shavers鈥� icing and found object paintings also play with the notion of pleasure, but gratification from these works verge on the grotesque. Encoded in their sickly sweet surfaces are secret messages of anti-authoritarianism. Because Shaver鈥檚 paintings defy preservation by inevitably cracking with age, her work also resists the assumption that an image holds still with time.
Yours or Mine is both an invitation and a boundary. Although the works in this exhibition claim space by being highly idiosyncratic, they seek common ground somewhere between attention, affection and desire.
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It鈥檚 easy to be seduced by Slanley鈥檚 slick, clean-edged surfaces. The near perfect symmetry of her plexi and hardware florals tap into our biological rules of attraction. As the creator of her own mythical world, Slaney crossbreeds 18th century botanical drawings, tattoo art, Buddhist iconography and ancient Japanese depictions of hell to create a world of inexhaustible variation. Zazueta is also building a world, one steeped in Mexican folklore, southern storytelling and Catholic ritual. In her travels she collects objects that make their way into altar-like tableaus, each one a dedication to magical thinking. The original objects are destroyed in the making of a 3D print, engaging in a cycle of death and rebirth where the rebirths are infinite. Inasmuch as a sculpture can transmit the divine, DeVane鈥檚 totems do so by channeling the power of the archetype. By employing mythical figures such as the mermaid, she invites interpretations of her work from different cultural perspectives, such as that of the Mami Wata, siren or selkie. DeVane frequently uses reflective and shiny objects to hold the spirit close to the earth, a tradition long found in West Africa, and later, the American South. Rather than reflecting light, Reeder鈥檚 larger-than-life neon drawing emits it. Neon conjures images of late night streets, Come In We鈥檙e Open, you can eat here, sleep here, dance here, play. Various promises of security and/or pleasure acquired in increments of time. Reeders work instead broadcasts desire in perpetuity, without a prescribed beginning or end. Shavers鈥� icing and found object paintings also play with the notion of pleasure, but gratification from these works verge on the grotesque. Encoded in their sickly sweet surfaces are secret messages of anti-authoritarianism. Because Shaver鈥檚 paintings defy preservation by inevitably cracking with age, her work also resists the assumption that an image holds still with time.
Yours or Mine is both an invitation and a boundary. Although the works in this exhibition claim space by being highly idiosyncratic, they seek common ground somewhere between attention, affection and desire.
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