2024
'Exquisite Corpse' collaboration with Kendra Barth
‘Exquisite Corpse’ is a tool that allows collaboration and generates creative play. Artists Kendra Barth and Vanessa Hartman have utilized this tool for the last year to bring to you pieces of their collective conscience. Letting their ideas frolic from one to another, on paper, in clay, through conversations and passed notes, Barth and Hartman have tapped into a thought pool all their own.
Ideas of innocence and nostalgia dance alongside personification of vegetation and anthropomorphic beings to the tune of fun.
The month of October is a time for fall weather, costumes, and a fine time for reflection on the year and projections for the year to come. Join Kendra and Vanessa and let ‘Exquisite Corpse’ get you into the season.
Ideas of innocence and nostalgia dance alongside personification of vegetation and anthropomorphic beings to the tune of fun.
The month of October is a time for fall weather, costumes, and a fine time for reflection on the year and projections for the year to come. Join Kendra and Vanessa and let ‘Exquisite Corpse’ get you into the season.
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"H-E-Y" Beardsley Farm Art Gala
Hey, asse mbled from fifteen ceramic
bale s of hay, is a celeb
ration of collec tion. The seed that
turns to grass that stands in a field
next to the next. In unison
and indiv idually in waves of ‘Hey’.
2023
'This Never Happened' - Collaboration with Kyle Cottier
"This Never Happened" is an collaborative abstract exploration of our boundless capacity to shape the world around us. Materiality takes a backseat as the exhibition delves into the realms of process, experimentation, and the enigmatic interplay of nostalgia and forgetfulness. Kyle and Vanessa infuse play into the nuances of language, navigating the labyrinth of lost and found, and unveiling the intricate tapestry of nature's nurturing embrace. Amidst dreamlike visions of wild horses and joyous celebrations of hay, personal myths emerge from the shadows, ready to roam freely. In the realm where rules are defined by the horse, we discover that within nothing and something lies the genesis of everything.
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"Blocks" Beardsley Farm Garden Gala
"In my memory, there is a snake, that when you hold it, it falls apart."
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2021
"Contact" Artist-in-Residence show at Mighty Mud
It has become apparent that we are living in different realities simultaneously. We interact with one another and the world around us.
We share a common language imbued in all of our faces and bodies.
We share experiences, we know the same things. We share words and stories. We all have a process. We all have grown. Comprehension, interpretation, intention, and sensibilities all depend on the individual. Each of us has our own story to tell.
I use creatures as a medium to understand the world through their perspective. They are vessels of stored energy, an utterance of an idea, and characters in a mythology of their own.
Collaborating with others has allowed me to bring my characters to life outside of the walls of this space. In this process I have upheld some simple pleasures in the concept of contact. Each mark I make on the clay is a transference of data from me, to the creature, to you. Each conversation I’ve had with others is now translated here to you.
Thinking of play, toys, home, growth, connection, and collective, how do these objects interact with one another and how do we interact with them? As a viewer I invite you to explore each of these individuals' lives. Ask them questions. They may not be so different from you or I.
We share a common language imbued in all of our faces and bodies.
We share experiences, we know the same things. We share words and stories. We all have a process. We all have grown. Comprehension, interpretation, intention, and sensibilities all depend on the individual. Each of us has our own story to tell.
I use creatures as a medium to understand the world through their perspective. They are vessels of stored energy, an utterance of an idea, and characters in a mythology of their own.
Collaborating with others has allowed me to bring my characters to life outside of the walls of this space. In this process I have upheld some simple pleasures in the concept of contact. Each mark I make on the clay is a transference of data from me, to the creature, to you. Each conversation I’ve had with others is now translated here to you.
Thinking of play, toys, home, growth, connection, and collective, how do these objects interact with one another and how do we interact with them? As a viewer I invite you to explore each of these individuals' lives. Ask them questions. They may not be so different from you or I.
Museum of Infinite Outcomes Collaborator
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