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Arts Center of the Capital Region, 2023
Two-person show with Shae Meyer
Shae and I had been wanting to put on a show about the apparent similarities of our work (his in painting, and mine in sculpture), and had been imagining some way to showcase our work as nicely as possible. The only option that we were given was a blackbox theater, which was not what we had initially imagined, but we decided to lean into the possibilities afforded by theatrical lighting. Rather than the uniform, bright space of a gallery, the theater called for focused spots, a labyrinth of black curtain walls, and special effects, which we achieved with ultraviolet lights, reflecting trays full of shimmering water, and slowly spinning sculptures suspended from the ceiling.
Our work shares apparent similarities because our workflows both rely heavily on direct experimentation. In both the paintings and the sculptures, the material itself is allowed to flow (literally) in the ways it needs to, creating gloopy, variegated forms. That experimentation continued through the process of the show, as the trays full of water rusted in patterns dictated by flow.
