SELECTS: CURATED BY DOUGLAS DEGGES
DEC. 12, 2019
SELECTS: CURATED BY DOUGLAS DEGGES
DEC. 12, 2019
Curatorial Statement:
“Bodies Bigger Than Eyes brings together six artists who are working with the body—some through the use of abstraction and fragmentation of the body into its parts, and others through the use of everyday objects or props that imply utility and human presence. Each of these artists is engaged with their materials and the crafting of space in ways that do not just allude to the body, but also require its presence. We, as viewers, are presented with only enough information to feel the work making room for us—for our own bodies and and our own encounter with the work’s seemingly incomplete or partial narrative. This kind of engagement calls for an attentiveness and presence that is not necessarily quiet or narrowly focused but full, messy, and entirely felt.”
— Douglas Degges, December 2019
Bodies Bigger Than Eyes features work by Eleanor Aldrich, Jessica Gatlin, Jana Harper, Raymond Padrón, Joel Parsons, and Erin Tucker.
Jana Harper, Cargas (Lifting), archival pigment print, 10 x 8 inches, 2019
Erin Tucker, Hanger, cast iron, 16 x 5 x 3 inches, 2016
Jessica Gatlin, Untitled (Expt 2.3), silkscreen on paper and fabric, assemblage, dimensions variable, 2015-16
Joel Parsons, Otherwise Love’s Body at Protest (bouquet), five signs for protest performance, mixed materials, installation view of You+Me at Crosstown Arts, 2015
Raymond Padrón, The Watchman, oxidized white oak, 36 x 28 x 3 inches, 2018
Erin Tucker, Bra, cast iron, 25 x 9 x 4 inches, 2016
Eleanor Aldrich, Black Jacket, caulking and paper on screen, 32 x 28 inches, 2017
Jana Harper, This Holding (Bearing), archival pigment print, 30 x 40 inches, 2019
Joel Parsons, Pas de Bud, beer cans, socks, tapes, 8 x 4 x 4 inches, 2012 - present
Jessica Gatlin, Here, A Vibration, mixed media installation, dimensions variable, 2017
Raymond Padrón, Dad Hat, photogrammetric scan, CNC milled, hand carved, and painted soft maple, 35 x 28 x 2 inches, 2019
Curator Bio:
Douglas Degges (b. 1986 Shreveport, LA) is a painter and educator currently based in Stafford Springs, CT where he is an Assistant Professor of Art in Painting and Drawing at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa and a BA in Studio Art from Rhodes College. His work has recently been exhibited at Vanderbilt University and Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN, VERSA in Chattanooga, TN, Night Light Gallery in Chicago, IL, The Yellow Door Gallery in Des Moines, IA, Tugboat Gallery in Lincoln, NE, Organ Kritischer Kunst in Berlin, Germany, and Galleria Huuto in Helsinki, Finland. Douglas was also an artist-in-residence at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation during the summer of 2018.
Douglas Degges
