MOTHERSHIP:EARTH opens today!
a solo exhibition by Stewart Francis Easton
We are super excited to announce the opening of Mothership:Earth a solo exhibition by Stewart Francis Easton. The show will run from June through mid-July 2021.
The reception will be held on Saturday 26th June from 2-5pm. As the borders are still closed to the UK folk, (if he can keep his eyes open, London time would be 10pm - 1 am), Stewart will attend via zoom.
Installation view of yes, the sacred yes, 2021 quilt, cotton 59.06” x 74.02”
Mothership:Earth is an active space containing three specific working methods which relate to and enable a deep connection with the Earth as a living sentient entity.
Through the working methods involved in the creation of the works which make up Mothership:Earth, a shift in awareness developed through the repetition of movement, and the visual solitude of the creative activity. This enabled a reawakening of the phenomena of time. More specifically the slowing down of time which is a byproduct of hand sewing and the repetitious mantra-like movement.
The exhibition is divided into three spaces :
Focused Awareness
Earth Music
Deep Listening
All three spaces relate to an activity which can create; and effect a slowing down and appreciation of the Earth and its diverse environments.
Focused awareness is an activity which is actioned within the realm of hand embroidery. Through this act of focused awareness the consciousness of the stitcher is expanded which enables an appreciation of the connectedness of life.
Close up of untitled embroidery 2021, cotton thread on linen, 12.8” x 12.8”
Earth Music relates to the unsound music and quietness of nature. The loudness of a mountain, or a vast open meadow contains the notes between the notes : the colours.
Installation view 1 of the Earth Music collages
Deep Listening is an immersion in the whole - visuals and aural. The comfort to the physical/ emotional and spiritual is cloaked within the three layers of fabric which make up a quilt.
the holy mountain, 2021 quilt, cotton 59.06” x 79.53”
Keep an eye on the EXHIBITION PAGE of the gallery site to see new show documentation and virtual tours as they arrive….
ARTIST NEWS
EUNKANG KOH
Eunkang has just flown to her home in South Korea, quarantined for 21 days and opened an exhibition at the Rund Gallery titled Faces in a Crowd, a collaboration of work between Eunkang Koh and Matthew Weidmann.
JEAN BRENNAN
Amongst the many projects Jean is working on simultaneously, is the OUT OF THIN AIR series. She explains: Our olfactory sense triggers memories—and by association, one might say that smell is linked to time in human perception. Forests pre-logging smelled different from today's forests, and that smell is ever-changing as forest succession and climate change march on.
This experimental research is a sensory teaching tool to talk about the delicate complexity of our forests in a warming climate. It employs ethnobotanical processes, such as distillation, tinctures, and smoke, to create scent combinations that map forest succession in Prospect Park, Brooklyn—from pre-European settlement to future scenarios.
Outcomes also include a video essay, botanical drawings, microscopic footage, process documentation, and blotters.
A second and ongoing project COLOR STUDIES is a series that uses extractive methods to produce natural dyes, inks, and essences as an ethnobotanical study of plants and place.
MIYA HANNAN
Miya has been awarded an Artist Residency in Montana at the OPEN AIR RESIDENCY
She has been assigned to work with historical Moon-Randolph Homestead site and is responding to the place making images using shapes from the location.
work in progress by Miya Hannan - soot drawing
MEGAN BERNER
Megan has been invited to create a piece for LAS VEGAS WINDOWS ON FIRST program, she will create an installation of textile work combining digital print, photographic transfer, and cyanotype.
An example of Megan's work, Icebergs + Islands, diptych photograph and cyanotype
JULIA SCHWADRON MARIANELLI
Julia has been invited to be an artist mentor on the ARTIST MOTHER PODCAST starting in August. She also has been awarded a residency at INTERLUDE in New York, a family residency for artists with small children. In August she opens a solo show Trembling Grass / Vibrating Grass at CHURCHILL ARTS CENTER in Fallon Nevada. The show will run from August - 13 November 2021.
Ground Cover-Up Acrylic ink on paper on board, 20" x 16" 2021
GALEN BROWN
Galen has been working on his Small Waves series, drawings that chase the colors of our region and his response to events and environments surrounding us.
Dark Blue Over Light Blue, small wave drawing 7.75” x 5.625” x 1.5” Ink on museum board, mounted on aluminum, on wooden frame
CLAIRE SCULLY
Claire has made a small test run of some of her Parkland series drawings as a book, and they have just arrived! Absolute gems... You can find them in the gallery store here.
We look forward to seeing you over the coming months.
Happy Summer everyone!