Faysal Altunbozar & E. Saffronia Downing: Flattened Flora: A Compass Sampler
@ Roots & Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, April 15th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, March 12th
we wild and wandering
planetary profusions
together track the traces
of soles stitching soils
floras feeling footholds
marks mapping memories
paces patterning places
of souls sowing seedlings
fingers finding features
mutations making matters
potentials planting patterns
we wild and wandering, walk
– Rosemary Holiday Hall
Saffronia Downing (b. 1992, Baltimore) makes site-specific ceramic sculpture to explore entanglements between the built and natural worlds. She received her BA in Studio Art from Hampshire College and her MFA in Ceramics from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Downing is the recipient of awards and residencies such as the Oxbow School of Art Fellowship, ACRE Residency, and Salem Art Works Studio Artist Residency. She is currently a residential fellow at theLunder Institute for American Artin Waterville, ME.
Faysal Altunbozar (b. 1993, Istanbul), is an interdisciplinary artist who creates discrete objects and spatial interventions that layer cultural histories and playful allusions to the body in order to reframe dichotomies of power and pleasure. An MFA recipient from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his work has been exhibited in Turkey, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. Faysal His recent solo and duo exhibitions were presented at Prairie (Chicago, USA), Space P11 (Chicago, USA, and Amazigh Contemporary (Chicago, USA & Amsterdam, NL). He is the recipient of the John W. Kurtich Travel Fellowship, Shapiro Center Graduate Research Fellowship Award, and New Artist Society Scholarship. He is living and working in London, UK.
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