Mike Collins

Sisters of Darkness,

2018

Cotton and Acrylic Yarns, Polystyrene

Industrial felt and wood

Industrial felt and wood

Linen, silk, madder; knotting

Linen, silk, indigo, madder; knotting

Hand knit merino wool, copper wire and pine

Fables No. 1: Silk and Steel series - mixed media painting and sculpture. A wonderful, provocative, curiously mysterious and delightful painting and sculpture by Elaine Badgley Arnou...

Laughter, discomfort, perplexity: these are all plausible reactions to the work by sculptor Cal Lane. The artist’s most recent body of work is an affective assemblage of incongruous parts that, taken together, violate our mental patterns and expectations. Charged with contradictions, metaphor, sexual undertones, and unsettling associations, Lane’s unlikely combinations use absurdity as a way of pointing to western society’s normalized habits and conventions, often with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. For the exhibition Try Me, Lane installs a basketball court in the gallery. The two basketball hoops on opposing walls are embellished with silver-coated frames and lustrous mirrors, which serve as decorative backboards. In place of nets, women’s black lace underwear delicately hang from hoops. A decorative rug stenciled with court lines performs as the court floor. It is a mise-en-scène set in motion by viewer’s reconciliation of the individual parts to the whole, and to their original function. Panties regard themselves in the mirror or perhaps measure up their opponent, which, not without irony, is the mirror image of itself. Themes of gender and sexuality are performed and imagined in the upward voyeuristic gaze of the viewer and the expected swoosh of the ball into the net. This is further elaborated by phallic impressions formed by court lines and their likeness to a work of modernist abstraction—a movement wrought by notions of masculinity. The decorative rug’s connection to femininity and domesticity juxtaposes the rigid geometry. Lane further explores the historical gendering of technology, industry, and war in her series of wallpaper drawings, which depict war submarines on cloud patterned wallpaper. The innocence of the submarine in popular culture and its reality as a phallic war object...

Renata Daina 'Conscious life of trees,' 2022 Handcoiled cotton fibers 17 x 17 x 4 inches ━━━━ (This piece is part of the exhibition titled 'WORK' on LADI...

Renata Daina 'Reaching limbs below,' 2022 Handcoiled cotton fibers 20 x 15 x 4 inches ━━━━ (This piece is part of the exhibition titled 'WORK' on LADIES'...

The language featured on this work of art reads "highest moment of impulse... high collateral glory." John Milton

Mike Rea Rest Is About Breathing Installation: 128” x 151” wood, burlap, rope, stain, saw dust 2023