THE EXHIBITION RUNS FROM JAN. 20TH - FEB. 18TH
OPENING RECEPTION SAT. JAN. 20TH FROM 5-7PM.
click here to see Abel Burger gallery.
click here to see Mark Jager gallery
Abel Burger
Abel Burger (b. 1982) lives in a small fishing village in the south of France. Her work explores the concept of individual mythologies - where ancient memories, myths, energies and beliefs come together and create a new system of images, narratives and emotions. These elements create what she calls archeologies of the future and are fed by her passion for ancient culture and brutalist architecture. This is their 2nd time exhibiting at Pulp. Abel is one of 5 Pulp artists whose work will be traveling to the Outsider Art Fair in late February.
Josephine Burr- Artist Statement
From my perspective, the language of clay is mute and absorbent. It exists as a foundation, a constant and yet invisible presence – as pot, as brick, as toilet and basin, as earth. I respond to its silence and its capacity. It is a holder of time and of the unnoticed, of the underpinnings of consciousness and of daily life.
In my work, I am interested in probing at this unnoticed space, coaxing the temporal and fleeting quality of experience into visible, tactile form.
The objects and installations I make echo familiar forms, but confound their meaning. They are metaphorical containers, pinched to hold passing time, shifting light, the fragile uncertainty of being. Boundaries are intentionally blurred: between interior and exterior space; between pot and sculpture; between object and drawing. It is what happens at these blurred edges that interests me.
Clay as a material speaks of the familiar, the concrete and the immutable, while simultaneously carrying a sense of transition, fragility and porousness. I am constantly interested in engaging the tension between these qualities. Making becomes an act of tactile listening, attending fully to that fragile terrain at the edge of perception. The path to completing each piece is a felt process, responding to the material in my hand and leaning into my own uncertainty.
Mark Jager lives in Bennington, Vt. He is one of my favorite painters. Surreal, dream like and powerfully observant of mood and feel. Mark’s bold use of colors.. the blues and purples and dusky yellowy greens… and the orange! .. they are slightly off kilter, but somehow work… drawing us in .. hooking us. I want to enter and inhabit space within the painting. There is a sense of stillness - they provide space for reflection, connection, isolation, contemplation and our place in the world… These are the windows that Mark creates. The space between light and dark.. the end of the day, the last light on in the house, the dream like hallucinogenic quality of the natural history dioramas.. all familiar somehow.