June: “An Infinite Gesture” & Em Jackson
EXHIBITION DATES: June 6th – 31st , 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: 1st Friday Reception, June 6th , 5:00 – 8:00, free and open to the public
GALLERY HOURS: Fridays 12:00 – 8:00 PM, except day of exhibit opening: Saturdays 12:00 – 8:00 PM
EAST GALLERY EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION “An Infinite Gesture – an exhibition of material and sound” Performance by Abigail Hanson & Miss June, Friday June 6 th 8:00 – 8:30
These combined works ask us to re-consider our tendency to understand art concerned with non- traditional genders and sexualities in terms of representation and how we impel such art to announce itself through tropes, documentary impulse, and material reference (glitter, leather, needles) and the consequences of those expectations. How do we eschew these tendencies in favor of a more embodied view of embodied living? To expand rather than pin down? What can object and gesture teach us about how we do or do not see bodies — ourselves and others. To ask not what is this about, but instead, how can I be changed by this? A gesture is both a symbolic & tangible act — A way to communicate outside language or a public gaze, — A way for bodies to relate & signal & pray & reconfigure — An offering of questions and possibilities. Edifice. Scrap Pile. Prayer.
In a time of extreme political violence — and a collapse of the house of cards we call tolerance — we might learn how to move away from hegemonic methods of taxonomizing, cataloging, and controlling bodies, even in the name of inclusion, and instead learn to understand our own undercurrents. Provincial. (homo)Sexual. Undomesticated. Infinite.
AN INFINITE GESTURE ARTISTS
Leor Miller is a photographer, musician, and writer from Evanston, IL currently based in New Haven, CT. She received a BA in Photography from Bard College in 2019 and will graduate with an MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art in May 2025. Leor’s photographs approach the world as a space of mystery. Working primarily with pinhole and panoramic cameras, she questions the historical role photography has played in depicting the earth and its human subjects as stable, knowable entities. She is particularly interested in instances where photography fails to produce concrete knowledge as a result of the ever-shifting boundaries between the self and the world. She is a transgender woman.
https://www.leormiller.com/
Eman Ahmed (created from clay along the Nile—now nourished by coast Salish currents) is held whole by a constellation of every kin and community they have been (and will be) lucky to water and be watered by. Their art and activism aspire to center/cherish/ and viciously arm collective freedom dreams of worlds to be and against a choking coloniality. Elva Bennett is an artist living and working in Seattle, WA. Their art observes queerness, connection, change, and the weighty grace of patchwork trans bodies moving about these themes. Elva began working with clay at Seward Part Clay Studio in 2021.
https://www.elvabennett.com/
Abigail Hansel is a writer and artist from Palouse, WA.
Twitter/IG: @lacerating_wish
June T Sanders is an artist, educator, and curator from the hills of rural eastern WA.
She lives there still.
www.junetsanders.com
EAST GALLERY EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION: Em Jackson, “Look!”
About the Artist - Em Jackson is a long-time Spokane artist, who, in much of her work, uses images from 1950s magazines, ironically, to make contemporary social commentary.
Artist Statement: Look! is the latest in several series of drawings in which I use imagery from 1950s magazines to make ironic statements about contemporary social issues. Images of women in lingerie ads have always been special favorites of mine, and I have inserted “lingerie ladies” into many situations in my art. In these images we see the obvious eroticism and vulnerability of a woman in underwear juxtaposed with the bullet-proof look of the underwear and the vacuous, detached expressions on the women’s faces. The male lookers in each drawing add an element of threat with their gazes.
