Good Naked is pleased to present:
FEEDER / A group exhibition of works by
Liz Ainslie
Grayson Cox
Flor Flores
Trevor King
Christopher Lin
Elisa Soliven
Lesley Wamsley
OPEN / SATURDAY & SUNDAY / JULY 22 & 23 / 12 - 6 P
29 Dumond Street / Catskill NY 12414
Good Naked (New York NY) is pleased to present FEEDER, a group exhibition opening Saturday, July 22nd from 12-6pm in Catskill NY in conjunction with Upstate Art Weekend.
The works in this exhibition all circle around ideas of exchange and offering, consumption and participation. The show developed in response to a bird collaboration project facilitated by Christopher Lin in his sculpture, For Things That Live and Die, which he began at Wave Hill last year. According to Lin, his work “references the myth of the titan Prometheus who was punished for aiding humanity, his creation, in defiance to the gods--his punishment was being chained to a rock while his liver was eaten by an eagle.” Lin was “interested in making this grotesque narrative a bit more whimsical by attracting songbirds and abstracting the figure into one that has calmly accepted his fate as a giver. As the birds consume the suet, they unknowingly engage with an act of stewardship by spreading local berry seeds embedded within the suet block reseeding the Hudson Valley with native blueberries through avian seed dispersal.”
Engaging with Grayson Cox’s work, Best Day of My Life Kiosk, similarly yields an exchange between object and those drawn to his sculptural form. In Cox’s words, viewers are invited to “perform the work,” using a bronze plate as a tool to create an object/artwork that they may take away. Cox makes rubbings in his studio as a daily practice. In his series of rubbing station sculptures he encourages viewers to participate in a similar process, engaging with the object and driving connection/self reflection.
Trevor King’s Luna Moth sculptures create a potential for illumination in passing. King writes of the luna moth as omen, “delicate phantoms [and] couriers of some sort of nocturnal message, a reminder of the mysteries that night brings.” As we convene with King’s forms we are invited to respond with our own musings. As King states, their “suggestive quality [is] reminiscent of rorschach symbolism, allowing for a multitude of impressions.”
Flor Flores likes to give their subjects agency in creation. In a recent series of paintings Flores channels Kiki, a conceptual persona of a queer monarch butterfly. Flores performs rituals to embody Kiki, in their words, “subvert[ing] authorship and allowing the paintings to develop their own intuitive language.”
For Lesley Wamsley, Elisa Soliven, and Liz Ainslie, this iteration of exchange takes place more directly between artist and subject. Lesley Wamsley paints en plein air, gathering form, texture, and color in day-long sittings as she encounters and renders light passing around her subject. Elisa Soliven speaks to her sculptures as a “recorded inquiry in capturing the talismanic essence of the human figure.” Liz Ainslie’s works pull from memory and automatic drawing. In Ainslie’s words, “abstractions are formed from abbreviations, clipped motion, and interrupted horizons.”
Come observe and engage in this invitation to feed.
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FEEDER will be on view July 22 - 23, 2023
The exhibition is OPEN
Saturday & Sunday
12 - 6 pm
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