Openings reception
12 Openings/Part 10
Please join us Sunday, June 16th

We are thrilled to present the next participating artists for
12 Openings/Part 10

Carris Adams/Jasper Nord

Carris Adams: Untitled

Open
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses
Stand up, stretch for the stars
Get somebody else involved right next to you
You elected me to keep it fresh to make it possible for the rest of you
To just take it there and
Get your head ringin from the sting of the snare
Spine tingle elevating every singular hair
Flash light, red light, proceed ahead right
Straight into them headlights, you get your head right
Head right get a third strike, hit the turnpike
Life quicker than spliff that wouldn’t burn right
Make you wanna holla bout it
It ain’t no doubt about it
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
Closed

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work explores the language and objects that mark our local and national landscapes. Through the materiality of painting and drawing, I embody the experience of discovering and recognizing these markers. My studio practice is peripatetic, allowing for any object that crosses my path to be source material for the studio. Through additive and subtractive processes that enhance or disrupt the legibility of the source images, my works become conceptually multi-layered. While I take a visual interest in found or appropriated objects, my translation of the material points to the enduring signifiers of shared space such as the residue of class, ownership, celebration, and our collective and personal histories. My paintings and drawings take on double or triple meanings as they seek to guide viewers through my experience while allowing them to recall their own.

BIO

Carris Adams is a visual artist whose practice visually investigates markers of domesticated space. The conceptually multi-layered works seek to inform and position viewers to recognize their assumptions, recall an experience and perhaps note how societal markers materialize in the landscape.. Adams received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2013) and her MFA from the University of Chicago (2015). Adams’s work has been exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem ( New York, NY) , The Logan Center Exhibitions at The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), Produce Model Gallery (Chicago, IL) Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery (Chicago,IL) and The Courtyard Gallery at The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX).

www.carrisadams.com

Jasper Nord: Curio

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