Artist Panel: "A Pot Nudged Into Oblivion"

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Join us on Monday, November 6th from 7-8:30 pm EST for a virtual panel with the artists featured in our current exhibition hosted at MAPSpace, 𝘼 𝙋𝙤𝙩 𝙉𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙊𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙣. Register at: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ldu2rpj4uHN25keV-e3i9xamVVNZXlHw8

The artists will discuss their individual practices and the mingled themes of protection, preservation, fear, and cautionary beacons in their work.

In this exhibition, eight artists handle modes of fear and fragility while either upholding or peeling away facades of fortitude. Mechanisms of warning are scratched, punched, scrawled, and lovingly arranged. Knee-jerk reactions and masterful plans share the room, mocking one another's attempts. To fear loss is to document, sear into memory, to reincarnate. Certain terrors set familiar triggers into action — a cycle ensues. It gets into the bloodline, passing from one young buck to the next. What if inside this cycle exists a fractal pattern of ferociously-protective enfolding around those slightly more scared? Hundred-year-old tree rings huddled to one another, curve after curve. To name an amorphous fear sets its edges apart from all else, making it small against the world. There are some rules of engagement: you may lay like settled snow if at the feet of a brown bear, but a black bear will require your most monstrous form. More info about the exhibition here.

𝘼 𝙋𝙤𝙩 𝙉𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙊𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙣 features work by Annika Earley, Shabnam Jannesari, Elena Kalkova, Zahra Pars, Meriel Pitarka, Cynthia Reynolds, Hannah Rothbard, and Jen Schoonmaker, curated by Jenn Cacciola.