THE FOCUS

"I’m interested in the apophenia one curates to make sense of the world around them. I tend to explore themes of safety, control and power and how these are implemented visually. I want the works made to perform a woven narration, constantly looping back informing and reimagining themselves to reference a larger, futile attempt at solving a mutating puzzle of our fictionalized ideal of America." Jesse Butcher, Virtual Studio Visit, June 2020 Jesse Butcher, Virtual Studio Visit, June 2020 Jesse Butcher, Vi...

Notes by Jana Harper on This Holding: Traces of Contact "I began working on This Holding several years ago with a simple question: 'What are the burdens we carry? And what might they look like?' In the process of researching, I talked to hundreds of people in dozens of community workshops: doctors, dancers, middle-school kids, college students, retirees, folks from many different countries, and from all walks of life. I always start by asking them to name the burdens...

Kimberly Dummons, Virtual Studio Visit, June 2020 Kimberly Dummons, Virtual Studio Visit, June 2020 "For several years my work has explored the concept of home, through sculpture, prints and collage. Lately, my sculptural work explores the two types of sculpture, relief and in-the-round, simultaneously, to talk about the juxtaposition of the inside and the outside. In my two-dimensional work, I am using color, pattern and texture to create prints and collage to talk about place, both literally and figuratively. I am simultaneously...