Emily Wise brings paintings Meet Me at the Mothership, winning the copywriting award.
"This collection expands Wise’s exploration into femininity, relational intimacy, and the symbolic dimensions of the natural world. Prompted in part by a recent trip to Utah, where vast desert terrains and geologic formations foregrounded questions of origin, endurance, and scale, Wise uses landscape as both subject and metaphor for maternal presence.
In this series, Wise develops the concept of the “Mothership” as a multivalent figure: cosmological, terrestrial, and corporeal. The term operates simultaneously as mythic archetype and contemporary psychological inquiry, invoking ideas of provision, protection, and generative capacity. Through this framework, Wise interrogates what constitutes a maternal quality, not as biological determinism, but as an affective and spatial condition shaped by care, reciprocity, and interdependence."
Along with The Pollinators, an installation by Jessie Rose Vala.
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Eric W Mast, Charlie Salas-Humara, Sean Purl Samoheyl have a show of abstaract paintings. Their copywritting wins too:
"Everyone has a tiny rectangle of two dimensional visual stimulus in their pocket these days, but it doesn’t seem to do much more than waste your time and fry your attention span, making you feel aggravated with its constant stream of bad news and reminders about what’s wrong with the world. So for these show we made small, calm, good news rectangles; hand made, meditative images with no reference to the “real world” and its dead end, gang warfare, partisan, corporate owned propaganda. These rectangles just sit around and you can give them as much or as little attention as you like, and they will never tell you what to think.
Abstraction is interesting to me because you have to create a new a new vocabulary of mark making and build something with that, but it allows room for spontaneity that you can’t always get with representational painting. It’s a bit like writing poetry with your own made up words. Or like scatting, in both sense of the word; singing wordless vocalizations and also smearing shit around on a canvas until it says something interesting.
Charlie and I were talking about doing a show together that focused on small abstract paintings, since we both usually do bigger pieces, and it would be an exercise to step out of our comfort zone. We thought Sean would be a good fit for this so we asked him to join us.
'These boys all had good GPAs in school and are now fulfilling an important market niche for abstract painting.' -The Chief Executive of Abstract Art"
At Musique Plastique 640 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Curator Pouvwa Nwa brings themselves and 8 artists in show Welcome Home. At Atelier Yaffe https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE Martin Luther King Blvd, enter on Couch 7PM-10 Free