Whitespace Spring Exhibitions (thursdays)

From the venue:

Notes (Foot and Otherwise) by Teresa Bramlette Reeves

A note is defined as a brief record of facts, topics, or thoughts, written down as an aid to memory. They may be shared or private. They may be as casual as a grocery list or as disciplined as a journal entry. Footnotes (or the more ominous sounding endnotes) are akin to marginalia, an aside, or a postscript. Together, these forms of note-taking and-making offer a window into one’s mind and our shared world. The notes in this collection may sometimes appear to suggest communication but often are abstract in form and meaning. The words recorded may never have been shared. Words sometimes look familiar and punctuation hints at a familiar structure, but the interpretation may be elusive. There are allusions to runes and pictograms–a nod to visual language–but the key is intentionally missing. The mix is intended to reflect a kind of breakdown. Structures are failing, the mind is aging, people don’t always mean what they say or say what they mean. There are gaps and disruptions, tangles and fragile connections. These are notes from today, yesterday, and tomorrow.

Related project within Notes (Foot and Otherwise): Fixations by the Pound
– David B. Winter
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What Are These Shapes, These Murky Waters That Are You & Me?| Kit Rutter

Listening, can you find the pulse of that which you do not know, but can feel? I watch spiders spinning their webs and I wonder about the knowledge that my own body holds. The more-than-words, cannot-be-taught knowledge. It is thick and textured and raw; sometimes invisible, always tender. Its sensuous language lies beneath our feet, in swaying grasses, and in our guts. If you are in a hurry, you will never find it. I shape goldenrods and walnuts and oak galls into parts of me, and they shape me too. We discover that curiosity and intimacy are medicines we cannot afford to lose. I pull my fingers out of the mud, orange & glistening.
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light leaves this prism| Eve Brown

Being enchanted with this world involves being with all of this world. Being in love requires us to accept grief. Feeling joy requires us to know pain. Watching the spring bloom requires us to know the tight squeeze of the winter bud. One cannot exist without the other.

light leaves this prism is an incantational installation exploring the interconnection of all things and the odd joy-pain within that. Rainbow light leaves the prism in part because of the tight squeeze of the prismatic structure, but that squeeze is exactly what breaks the seemingly singular light into its radiant multitudes.

light leaves this prism utilizes the structure of the shed as the “prism” and the light that filters in to explore how the feeling of rigidity can transform into uncatchable vastness. This installation passes words fraught with boxy rigidness (“I”,“woman”, “sex”, “pleasure”) through the wisdom of the prism. The hand sewn nets act as microscopic lenses-suspending trash, collage and evidence of process, and rooting them down into a large ceramic woman who has herself been shattered into pieces- revealing multiplicity. What filters in as singular or rigid, filters out into endless multitudes, revealing watery edges, and blurring the lines between self and everything at once. This show explores stretching the erotic imagination as the root for constructing a larger sense of connection to this world. It’s an incantation for a more vivid aliveness that spills out from rigid individualism and through play explores the messiness and ever-evolving nature of what it means to be human, of the both/and nature of existence.
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Wednesday, hotel| Mark Leibert

Wednesday, hotel is a riff on a series of tableaus in the corridor of a mysterious hotel in Jean Cocteau’s “Blood of a Poet” (1932). This animation is part of my hotel cycle, an autobiographical pursuit which weaves elements of memory and fiction in drawings, paintings, sculpture, and the moving image (see the “Hotel Mirror” and “Lobby Flowers” series). The constraints of Peepspace and the viewer’s confrontation with a literal hole in the wall offered an opportunity to pursue new ideas in a short form animation.

Courtesy of Sandler Hudson Gallery.
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