Exhibitions

COMFORT RIDDLE

Wavelength Space / 854 McCallie Ave., Chattanooga , TN June 19, 2021 - July 10, 2021

Anna Buckner, Jennifer Crescuillo, Paige Greeley, Jodi Hays, Ayo Janeen Jackson, Todd Jones, Kirby Miles, Beth Reitmeyer

Mineral House Media is pleased to present our third annual group exhibition, Comfort Riddle, opening at Wavelength Space on June 19, 2021. This show features works by Anna Buckner, Jennifer Crescuillo, Paige Greeley, Jodi Hays, Ayo Janeen Jackson, Todd Jones, Kirby Miles, and Beth Reitmeyer. Each artist participated in our 2020 digital residency program, a monthly Instagram takeover and interview series.

A riddle is an invitation to dwell. It is a poetry of the twist and tangle, enigma, particles assembling, dissolving, and reforming. It is a powerful puzzle that engages others in the divining of difficult truths. In mystery or fairytale, a riddle is a coat of sugar over fear, an alluring glimmer that draws one on toward a better life. As we find ourselves cautiously emerging from over a year of upheaval and tragedy, we are struck with the persistence of the unresolved, and made aware of our means of comforting ourselves through it. This manifests in forms of self-nourishment as well as social indictment as we engage our skills to establish a more comfortable future. The artists in Comfort Riddle each demonstrate an investment in the conundrum. Through material experimentation, humor, poetry, and examination of both personal and collective states, they wield the unknown to transform reality.