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Bringing together the works of six artists who draw upon both found and imagined imagery, Unstable Territory: reflections on memory creates a captivating dialogue on the ways identity is constructed and reshaped over time and through experience. The exhibition, curated by Erin Ellis & Kristen Force, offers a thoughtful meditation on the transient nature of memory, inviting viewers to reflect on the fragility and fluidity of personal and collective histories alike. In cooperation with Gallery 12.26 (Dallas), Ochi Gallery (Los Angeles), and Workplace (London).
Breck Baig (b. 1984, Vail, Colorado) is a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting and ceramics. Her work is based on evoking emotions through color, space, and form. Her goal is to push and pull the viewer through vivid abstraction. These works are made as meditation. Each piece evolves organically, often with emotion and color as the only guiding reference. Her work repeats themes of memory, nature, and distorted realities.
b chehayeb (b. 1990, Dallas, TX) makes paintings, prints, and drawings that focus on the reconstruction of failed memories and sensory experiences warped by nostalgia, gender, language, and cultural hybridity. Semi-abstract fields of luscious texture, gesture, color, and ambiance are perforated with chehayeb’s growing lexicon of symbols—cowboy boots, stars, horses, snakes, ladders, furniture, and the letter ñ—as anecdotes, spaces, and emotions emerge from the paint.
Aglaé Bassens (b. 1986, Belgium) Aglaé Bassens paintings portray tender and reflective moments, offering a poignant exploration of intimacy, shared human experience, and the tapestry of memory. Often sourced from personal photographs and found images, her imagery evokes the ordinary and attempts to reframe it, inviting the viewer to reimagine and reconsider everyday sights.
Laura Lancaster (b. 1979, Hartlepool, UK) The figure is central to the work of Laura Lancaster, its presence intensified by the opposing entropic force of abstraction which perpetually subsumes and engulfs the protagonist. Images that are of their era - located in time through incidental clues such as clothing, pose, and contingent detail - are monumentalised by Lancaster through painting.
Rachel Lancaster (b. 1979, Hartlepool, UK) Rachel Lancaster’s practice is focused on painting and its intersections with the languages of cinema, music and photography. Photographic ‘stills’ from found moving imagery, alongside an archive of her own photographs are selected from, edited and then translated into oil paintings. Lancaster's paintings represent detailed fragments of a greater narrative. She is drawn to seemingly insignificant passing shots, extreme close ups of inanimate objects, common place domestic interiors; the split second moments that are “in-between” the action. Divorced physically from their position within a narrative structure, these paintings become abstract, ambiguous and open-ended as to the unknown events which have preceded or may follow.
Julia Maiuri (b. 1991, Michigan) Drawing inspiration from film and collective memory, Julia Maiuri investigates an imaginative space that lies somewhere between the natural and supernatural. Utilizing the themes of time, truth, and diverse perspectives of a single moment, Maiuri explores the realm of the fantastic through her paintings. Referencing mostly horror and film noir, she masterfully incorporates the slow dissolves of film into her paintings and invites viewers into a world of intrigue and introspection.