Pillars of Motionless Time
a solo exhibition Chimaeara Gallery, Philadelphia
May 11 – June 29, 2024
This solo exhibition built on my research into natural pigments and the observed world. It featured new paintings, video, and an animated wall-painting that grew over the course of the show.
Environmental Portraits
The suite of six paintings features detailed, ecological vignettes from our regional biome.
Created with handmade natural paint – often foraged on site – the paintings grew from residencies at Winterthur and Cunningham Falls State Park. Layered reflections that invite a maze of attention, they are slow paintings that flatten space through time.
‘In Observation of Ornamental Groups’ Goldenrod, Indigo, Barberry, Hickory Nut, Buckthorn Berry, Walnut, Blackberry, Logwood Artist Made Inks on Paper
Screening Room
The videos –in contrast– are fast.
Only one-minute each, these experimental chroma-poems are fleeting glimpses of saturated color: foraged, animated and constructed.
Excerpt from ‘Respire’ the green chromopoem.
Field Notes
The exhibition also included the experimental wallwork ‘Field Notes,’ an animated sketchbook –arranged, drawn and projected directly on the gallery wall– that changed over time.
‘Field Notes’ as installed June 2024.
Pillars of Motionless Time
Together, this body of new work explored overlapping ideas of screening–as scientific filter, visual device and temporal recording. It reflected my on-going search for sustainable and regenerative methods of creating in the studio and in the wild.
Acknowledgements:
Rachel Wetzel, Sound
Jo Moore, Sewing
Tedd Prontnicki, Install Support
Mark Stockton, AV Support
Iona and Otto Stockton, Animation Support
Anne Schaefer & Mary Smull, Consulting
Angela McQuillan, Director of Opportunity and Operations
Philly Dye Club, Research & Innovation
Irwin Art Frames
Much of this work is informed by my time at Winterthur Museum, Gardens, and Library as a Maker/Creator Fellow and while artist-in-residence in the Catoctin Mountains at Cunningham Falls State Park.
Titles quote the following writers:
Mary Ruefel, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Rebecca Solnit, Thomas A Clark, Mary Gartside and Rachel Blake.