GUT FEELING
2022
Hand-dyed fabric, vintage fur, thread, wood, paper clay, plaster, acrylic paint
56 x 40 x 14 in
Gut Feeling: a solo exhibition at Yi Gallery in Brooklyn, May 14 - July 9, 2022. Images courtesy of Yi Gallery and the artist. All work created in 2022. Exhibition Catalogue.
In the exhibition, Gut Feeling, hyper-tactile sculptures evoke the paradoxical experience of being a body. One can know their own body intimately and yet the inner workings remain utterly mysterious. Organs carry out tasks beneath flesh and microbes flourish in guts without direction from the human in which they inhabit. Even though science provides brilliant explanations of how we function, to occupy a body is to be both at home and amidst an alien landscape.
Utilizing a wide range of materials - including paper clay, polymer gypsum, vintage fur, fabric and acrylic paint - these abstract sculptures evoke a definition of a body that defies easy categorization. Biomorphic forms - like an unruly intestine or spleen - bulge and coil in defiance of gravity. Sensuous fabrics with pore-like holes are layered over protruding fur. This is a body that is in process and lacks a distinct outside and inside. This hyper-tactility is an invitation to engage the knowledge that resides in the senses and in the materiality of the body. Gut Feeling occupies the space between what can be sensed about one’s own body and what can only be imagined.
Spotted Blush
2022
Polymer modified gypsum, paper clay, glass beads, acrylic paint
3.5 x 6 x 3.5 in
Spotted Flush
2022
Polymer modified gypsum, hand-dyed fabric, paper clay, glass beads, acrylic paint
6 x 9 x 17 in
Spongy Sentiment
2022
Hand-dyed fabric, vintage fur, thread
63 x 23 x 2 in
Viscous Euphoria
2022
Paper clay, gypsum, foam, wire, acrylic paint
7.5 x 6 x 5 in
Nodular Recline
2022
Polymer modified gypsum, paper clay, glass beads, vintage fur, steel, acrylic paint
7.5 x 5 x 5 in
Slippery Swim
2022
Hand-dyed fabric, vintage fur, thread
62 x 24 x 3 in
2022
64 x 34 x 7 in
Barely There
2022
Polymer modified gypsum, vintage fur, paper clay, acrylic paint
4.5 x 4.5 x 6 in
Cochlear Crush
2022
Polymer modified gypsum, vintage fur, paper clay, glass beads, acrylic paint
7 x 8.5 x 8 in
Synapse Fizz
2022
Hydrocal, fabric, paper clay, acyrlic paint
3.5 x 5.5 x 20 in
Warm on the Inside
2022
Paper clay, gypsum, foam, wire, acrylic paint
4 x 9.5 x 5 in
Solarplex Vibration
2022
Polymer modified gypsum, hand-dyed fabric, paper clay, acrylic paint
4.5 x 4.5 x 17 in