Michaela Navin

(they/them) Artist Statement:

In my practice, I examine vulnerability, humiliation, and confrontation of social norms using sculpture, performance, and participation. I’m interested in transposing thoughts and experiences that are socially deemed private, and sharing them in art spaces. My work invites viewers to engage with material that is personal to me, or to share something personal of their own. At the Re Institute I plan to show new work exploring the rituals, tests, and boundaries which keep our interpersonal relationships alive and how our early experiences inform how we perform them as adults.  

Elise Dean Wolf

(she/her) Artist Statement:

These paintings are grounded in a sense of looking, recontextualizing individual scenes, historical references, and personal archives. Creating a moment that is shared asynchronously, see through my eyes, hold with my hands. Each piece exists outside of its own picture plane and together they capture a sense of stillness, a loneliness that holds more than being alone, a narrative found through proximity and pairing. A venn-diagram between process and execution! these relics of time and experience. Plastic plastic plastic! The ocean is full of it and so to you and me, I might as well love Artificial doesn’t have to be any less personal

horse 

Moshopefoluwa Olagunju

(he/him) Artist Statement:

My earlier work was built up through collaging of appliques, paper, and mixed media on canvas. I think of that body of work as an additive process rooted in collagraphy. Over the last year I've been experimenting with what I call a subtractive process, using acrylic, image transfers, and gel gloss medium then scratching and carving away a blade or rotary tool to carve out an image

Aso Oke (aiye ni iwuwo) - Omola Studio

Macguire Nelson

(he/him) Artist Statement:

My work comes from impulses of actualizing an idea, a shape, or a certain finish on a form. I am drawn to making objects that can perform a task. In the desire for an end point when an object can function, I have found that I am drawn more to the different processes in making them than the product itself. Each exploration into a way of working with a material generates more ideas of how I can combine or translate the materials and their processes into different objects, some functional, and some not. Why are we drawn to certain forms? How does what I learn in one process inform what is next? How does a shape change as it moves from thought to object? While there is an arrival point with most objects, it is the questions that arise in the process that have my attention.  

Macguire Nelson 

Jess Vaughn

Artist Statement:

What happens when loss changes your perspective on life completely? In the past four years, I’ve been well-acquainted with the end-of-life experience after being a primary caregiver for my grandparents, and my close senior friend, through the last stages of their lives. The piece I’m contributing to this show will be an experimental multimedia site-specific installation that touches on themes of life, death, and reflection.  

Madeline Eldridge

(she/her) Artist Statement:

I am showing a group of work that includes different ways I approach a soft sculpture. I use a stuffing method, using materials found in bedding such as goose down feathers and polyfil. I will be showing a pantyhose arrangement stuffed methodically and strategically to, on an off chance, resemble the body of an animal, human, or even the feeling of stuffing oneself into this article of clothing. These sculptures are meant to be ephemeral and change with the elements if they so please  

i can see the small opening of the pasture gates 

Christian Crowley

(he/him) Artist Statement:

I use sculpture as a way to create my own home, and a home for others. This space can be a place of safety and comfort, residing within a larger space. The function of my space is fully realized when a person exists within it. All of the fabric I use has been previously owned, holds a memory of past lives, and reflects that energy into its new arrangement.