September Artists: Josh Hobson & Posie Kalin
EXHIBITION DATES: September 8 th , 2023 – September 30th
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 8 th , 2023; 4:00 – 8:00 PM
GALLERY HOURS: Fridays 12:00 – 8:00 PM, except day of exhibit opening: Saturdays
12:00 – 8:00 PM
JOSH HOBSON – NOCTURNES
BIO: As a lens-based artist I am deeply interested with the fluidity of photography–constantly redefining itself and problematizing its status as a fixed medium. Through a broad practice that embraces the studio, still life, re-photography, material experimentation, abstraction and non-representation, I aim to challenge and expand upon the primary tenets of the medium: originality, faithfulness, reproduction and indexicality. My current work sits at the crossroads of photography, sculpture and installation and is grounded in material culture, the history of abstraction and an alternative history of lens-based media.
STATEMENT: The images from the Nocturnes series are a conceptual and technical continuation of work made over the past three years, specifically the series Sunstroke. This work is an expression of climate angst and anxiety. The colors and textures produce sublime, abstracted images at once alluring and alarming. Utilizing an experimental approach, but with the visual language of atmosphere, celestial bodies and terrestrial flora, the resulting images are both otherworldly, yet familiar.
POSIE KALIN– I AM WHO I AM BECOMING
SHORT BIO – Posie Kalin (she/her) is an artist, musician and arts educator. She received her MFA from Portland State University 2008. Her artwork explores a broad spectrum of mediums including film, music, photography, choreography, installation, painting and sculpture. Kalin’s methodologies, within her art practice, takes liberty with the aleatoric process bringing her closer to a kind of alchemical journey which is embedded in the artworks themselves.
STATMENT - In her new body of work titled, I Am Who I Am Becoming, Kalin explores memory and identity. Materials used in this body of work were collected over 20 years by Kalin's late father whose hobby was to scavenge through second hand stores searching for wool shirts among other things. By reconstructing the wool shirts into new forms Kalin touches on the meaning of memories and how they shape who we are in the present. These new forms weave different elements together searching for threads of meaning that may reveal hints or clues supporting Kalin's inquiry as they visually obscure or hide unrealized truths. Kalin's hope is that embedded in the work is a place where viewers can investigate and create their own narratives through photographs, sculpture and installation art that provoke thoughts of who you are and who you are becoming.
