KALEIDOSCOPE COLLECTIVE

ON VIEW - NOW through July 30th

CLOSING RECEPTION - July 24th from 6-8pm

Artist Statement:
My practice considers erosion both a destructive and a generative force, listening to how things fall apart and re-form. My process includes washing printed images of baptism rivers, weaving construction wattles, and gathering water from sacred sites. Erosion is a slow undoing but also a carver, deepening new crevices of being. Through Southern Black spirituality, I understand water as a reverberating agent of wear/loss, and as a humbled site of cleansing and renewal. This duality propels my work into seeing the breakdown of matter, memory, and body; not as endings, but as entry points for transformation.

ON VIEW - August 3rd - 29th

OPENING RECEPTION - August 7th from 6-8pm

Some* House Art, new works on steel and canvas by Gabriel Allred.  This show highlights a selection of mixed media works produced by Gabriel over the last year incorporating silkscreened images, acrylic, and paper ephemera. 

The title references a selection of the works within the show, unmounted canvas works called tenugui (手拭い).  Tenugui are multipurpose cotton fabrics in Japan, sometimes used to wrap a bento box or carried as a handkerchief.  These colorful decorative fabrics are also found hung like small tapestries in many Japanese homes.  Some* House Art features Gabriel’s interpretation of the tenugui, not on traditional cotton, but on unstretched artist canvas.

John Baldessari once said: “Every artist should have a cheap line.  It keeps art ordinary and away from being overblown.”  Sharing this ethos, the tenugui within the show represent Gabriel’s “cheap line;” affordable works and hangable in a home.