THE FOCUS

David Onri Anderson: The work I am currently making is in between a performance of negotiating a symbiotic relationship with inert material and creating a or assisting with hidden or mysterious qualities that could exude with the combination of specific artist material and general waste, refuse, and low-brow subject matter. Each work usually functions as a painting, while occupying an individual space as an object, and altogether they form stanzas that direct the line of sight through a rhythm...

Amelia Briggs: In Equal Parts you pulled ideas from two different bodies of work. What are those individual bodies of work and what is their relationship to Equal Parts? Virginia Griswold: Sometimes I feel like I am making one long continuous body of work with no beginning or end to it. Exhibitions offer an opportunity to pause, reflect, frame-up ideas, package, and diverge. They offer punctuation on what would otherwise be a long (maybe too long!) run-on sentence. I would...

Ariel Lavery graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BFA from the University of Colorado Boulder (2007) and received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. (2013). She is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Watkins College of Art, Design, and Film. She has exhibited extensively nationally and has curated and juried exhibitions in Main, Massachusetts, and Tennessee. She is part of COOP, a Nashville based artist collective devoted to curating in artists to the Nashville scene. She is...