KEITH EKSTAM, KEVIN HUGHES, EUH-KYUNG SUH, CALDER KAMIN, JULIE MALEN
MAY 13 – JUNE 10, 2011
KEITH EKSTAM‘s work is a record or a trace, in a sense, of his existence and experience in his life. He builds sculptural forms using painted slips and englobe surfaces. During a residency in Fundacio, Spain, he explored geological forms that surrounded him.
KEVIN HUGHES‘s sculptures explore the dual concepts of relationships and toys. Through the similarities and differences of forms and their materials, Hughes delves into how people relate to one another.
EUH-KYUNG SUH work is a series of sculptural vessels that are a metaphor for human emotion, memory, and experience. She creates vessels inspired from Bojagi, a traditional wrapping cloth used to cover everything from ritual objects to everyday household belongings in Korea. She attunes the repetitive structure of the Bojagi to contain memories.
CALDER KAMIN utilizes clay animal forms to bring awareness to the conflict between nature and humanity and the “universal dismissal of animal death caused by humans.” Doing so, she brings to light the effects of human intervention in nature.
JULIE MALEN creates metaphorical scenarios interpreted in her clay objects where the viewer can create a narrative in what the objects represent and how they interact with each other. She is deeply inspired by 17th Century Dutch still life paintings and finds many of her themes within them.
