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HERE COMES THAT FEELING
VIDEO INTERVIEW
INTERN PERSPECTIVES:
The exhibition HERE COMES THAT FEELING by the artist KG explores poetry through woven textiles and found objects. Inspired by music and places they visit, they bring a piece of an adventure back into their works whether it is fries, a tree branch or paper clips. Each piece individually daunts viewers to peak closer at the colorful and textured details of the narrative. The peculiar objects challenges KG to approach each textile differently by allowing the materials to live in the window of the pieces. The small scaled work intimately plays with breaking the bounds of the rectangular shape with hanging strings or metal wire complimenting the unique individual works. An imaginative body of work compels viewers to use their five senses in recognition of the items alluding to a narrative and their desire to feel the texture of every line of thread.
Jenny Lee - Fall 2022 Intern
HERE COMES THAT FEELING by the artist KG is an exploration of the different aspects of life intertwining through weaved material. KG, takes inspiration from music and tarot cards along with lived experiences. Music allows the artist to connect to different lyrics as well as nostalgic moments, while the tarot brings them promises of the future. KG allows for each aspect of the experience to be one done with creative intent and meaning. The artist curated the exhibition themselves, stating that the method of displaying the pieces takes root in the importance of each piece no matter the size. KG is a gemini, and has created many of the pieces with intention of having a twin, often this is done by similar loom size or subject exploration. This exhibit is able to flawlessly accept and portray that each story from their life is intersectional and has ultimately created something beautiful.
Raegan Glaser - Fall 2022 Intern
In HERE COMES THAT FEELING by the artist KG, we enter the daily explorations of their life from walking their dog, phone calls, outings with friends, and more. The materials found woven together come from these daily moments. These adventurous materials then become more intimate as they enter KG's home and find more ways to interweave and mingle in the home creating a deeper story with the artist. With multiple works being created at once, KG than jams in their space, thinking about what to work with, what colors should be there, what textures should they capture, and literally jamming objects in trying to make sense of what works for the narrative. With the smaller scale of the works the viewers can capture those life experiences as they view beautiful snapshots into KG's life.
Malachi Baer - Spring 2023 Intern
Imi Hwangbo
Reverie
VIDEO INTERVIEW
INTERN PERSPECTIVES:
Imi Hwangbo's exhibition composes of methodical 3-D sculptural compositions of geometric patterns and flower motifs stemming from Korean decorative patterns. Her artworks draw viewers in to experience these pieces up close to notice the intricate layers in the cut paper reliefs. The precision in her works create an optical illusion that play with light and shadow. Her tightly rendered Constructed Drawings transition into her Constructed Prints with a looser compositional cut paper relief. The media itself opens up a conversation to the subject matter's delicacy. Hwangbo translates how a drawing can become sculptural.
Jenny Lee - Spring 2022 intern
Imi Hwangbo's body of work tackles moments of dematerialization of a modern lifestyle and how detached one may become due to digital influences. This work creates objects of meditation in hopes to bring viewers back to ones body. The idea of meditation through the work continues through the large amount of energy expended in creating as each piece shows high levels of precision that is created predominately by hand. Hwangbo has previous sculptural training that she uses as a preparatory step along with drawing, however this also connects to her personal metaphor about space and its ties to freedom. Allusions to space are also contemplated through Hwangbos influence of Buddhist Temples, as the patterns reference infinity while allusions to three dimensional forms become a transformative space that one must decide weather or not they are willing to enter.
Raegan Glaser - Fall 2022 intern
CAROLINE KENT
Writing Forms
INTERN PERSPECTIVES:
In Caroline Kent’s exhibition “Writing Forms”, she takes her viewer on a journey through her own curiosity. This curiosity entails the exploration of language, abstraction, painting, and where those lines may blur. Kent carefully considered the layout of Hawthorn, responding to the space in a way for the viewer to “consider language as a form not to be translated but deciphered”.
The show consists of a series of four paintings joined by frames made specifically to invite the viewer to intimately engage with the work, a largescale painting accompanied by a wooden sculpture, and a form painted directly on the wall of the gallery with two smaller wooden sculptures on each side. The artist has subtly blurred the lines of language and painting throughout the installation where as a viewer, those blurred lines greeted me, sometimes unexpectedly, as I explored her abstractions.
An example of this is in her wooden sculpture where it takes on the similar shape of a podium. As you step up to it, you feel as though a speech is to be made. Another is her two small wooden sculptures on each side of the form married to the wall. They resemble quotation marks. Kent is already blurring those lines where a line may exist no longer as she continues on her expedition of curiosity.
TAYLAR GERGEN - Spring 2020 intern
Caroline Kent’s Writing Forms is a careful curation of work that explores language through painting and sculpture. Viewing Caroline’s work was a very engaging and thought-provoking experience for me. The interaction felt similar to a conversation in the sense that there is a back and forth between the viewer and the paintings. As I spent time with each work, I would continue to find new things that I hadn't noticed before.
In her four-part series of paintings on paper in this exhibition, it is evident that she considered engaging the viewer through the design of the display as well as the content of the work itself. The paintings are housed in frames that are constructed in a way that partially obstructs the image unless the viewer is directly in front of it. This design sparked my curiosity and encouraged me to look closer.
Writing Forms also features a large-scale painting on unstretched canvas, a wooden sculpture, and a form painted directly on the wall of the gallery.
DOM MILLER - Spring 2020 intern
DOMINIC CHAMBERS & SAMUEL WEINBERG
Chambers & Weinberg
INTERN PERSPECTIVES:
The Dominic Chambers/Samuel Weinberg exhibition provides a nuanced glimpse into the human experience. Within this show, paintings serve to explore the impact of community and environment on the perception of the individual. Figures cast around the room capture interactions between humans and otherworldly forces, transforming the otherwise mundane into a fantastical narrative. Through a combination of unexpected mediums, the subject matter carries a sense of universality which allows the viewer to connect to a concept in a variety of ways. This exhibition demonstrates the remarkable versatility of each artist. Their ability to combine seemingly lackadaisical mark making with purposeful and precise rendering inspires my own approach to art-making.
REAGAN MULVEY - Fall 2019 intern
SARAH FITZSIMONS
Ocean Objects
INTERN PERSPECTIVES:
Experiencing Sarah FitzSimons' Ocean Object has given me a number of perspectives on both the process and the concept of art making. The importance of research in the creative process and how that translates a message to the viewer. Every ocean current reflected in the stitching and specific topography of the water, dignified by the different values and temperatures of blue, show how information can be as vast and significant as the Pacific Ocean. In combination with the credibility of replicating the Pacific Ocean, the intimacy of the material choices also captured Sarah's intended concept. Each inch, representing 25 miles, is felt in every joint of the connected materials. The placement of the quilt finalized the concept, for me. Every time I stepped in the gallery, the quilt maintained its presence as both a vast ocean of obstacles while ironically wrestling with an invitation for comfort.
MEGAN DUERLINGER - Summer/Fall 2019 intern
Akin to nature itself, Pacific Quilt is both organic and free flowing, while also being meticulously designed and mathematically crafted. This precise attention to detail is present not only in the work, but also in Sarah’s thoughtful utilization of the space. Assisting Sarah throughout the installation process allowed me to gain insight into the decisions that go into how visitors interact with and perceive artwork in a space. For example, the placement of Pacific Quilt in the gallery makes visitors aware of their location in the room, and encourages them to consider themselves in relation to the locations represented in the piece. Working with Sarah provided me insight into how to effectively display work as well as the artistic process as a whole.
BEN HERBERT - Summer 2019 intern
REMA GHULUOM
Pink Sky, Red Sea
Expressive, atmospheric and rich in texture, Ghuluom pulls from her everyday experience in her studio and its surroundings. Working intuitively, she navigates these internal and external environments; she writes, “The ways in which one sees, feels, recalls, and absorbs an experience fascinate me and I consider how this can be translated and transformed through painting.”
LIZ MILLER
Proliferative Calamity
The artifice of Miller’s sculptural environments reminds us that the illusion is fleeting. She writes: “The sculptural aspects of the work, created through simple manipulation of mundane materials, play with the precariousness of our perceptions and the fallibility of infrastructure. While at the outset the works seem elaborate, closer inspection reveals the precarious nature of their construction and the mundane materiality that comprises the elaborate façade.”
ANDREA CHUNG
The Mess You Made
For The Mess You Made, Chung focuses on “the legacies of tools and their unintended use in the hands of the colonized.” Each tool, made and cast from sugar, is hung and cast in overwhelming amounts to create an enveloping installation. These objects are not only symbolic of a much larger story, the material sugar also speaks volumes.
JUAN ÁNGEL CHAVEZ
Stayin' Alive
Stayin’ Alive features a variety of work including: Gramophone, a 12ft3 installation, two assemblages titled Chief Wonder and KOKA, as well as a variety of prints. Encompassing the nostalgia of sound and place, Gramophone is built with its own disassembly in mind. The piece comments on the temporality of shelter and refuge as it hangs from the center of the gallery, creating a tent-like structure. The assemblages made of fishing line and rope come from Chavez’s memory of time spent fishing in Mexico as a kid. Chavez recalls how his line used to get tangled. Now, as line and rope entangle within each assemblage, a connective thread of human migration, adaptability, and influence within the urban sphere appear. Binaries of dystopia versus utopia, tension versus suspension, and human needs versus wants are symbolically played out.
NICOLA LÒPEZ
Relics, Fibs, Trash, and Treasures
Relics, Fibs, Trash, and Treasures includes an expansive installation titled Salvage as well as six prints from López’s Urban Transformation series. Salvage, a continuously evolving index of the artist’s semiotics, incorporates prints, photographs and drawings intermingled with found objects. Bits of chain link fencing, orange mesh barriers, barbed wire and scaffolding are systematically taped and pinned to the wall. With specific attention to the individual materials, we are able to examine their history and reimagine the salvaged item’s future.