In Bloom
AMY WRIGHT has a preoccupation with capturing abandoned landscapes— the discarded, ignored, and untamed. Each canvas holds a world that morphs reality with imagination— plants are depicted wildly, landscapes are tiered, and vantage points tower with often-obscured horizon lines. NADIA YARON creates works inspired by the natural world from wood, stone, and metal. Yaron’s sculptures are inspired from the substance of her everyday life— walks with her family, deep observations of nature, and the land on which she lives. The resulting works are bold, weighty shapes in variations of balance. Yaron is thinking about rendering the impermanence of nature into the most permanent materials we have. Constructed in calm, monochromatic color palettes of browns, creams, taupes, and grays, these are organic shapes boiled down to their most reductive yet evocative state. Clouds might teeter upon a mountain, which sits on rock— a visual haiku to provoke the senses. MARGOT BECKER is an artist, weaver, and educator based in Hudson, NY. Through textile processes she explores sense of place, the natural environment, and the connection between the individual and the communal subconscious. "I make precise, sensuous weavings rooted in sustainable textile traditions and the slow intelligence of handcraft," says Becker of her work. AUDREY DUCAS is a French artist and textile designer. Born and raised in France, she moved to New York a decade ago. Her fiber art is inspired by her numerous travels in Asia. "I keep studying and honoring the lineage of weavers I evolved from, while also taking risks and consciously breaking the rules of my classical training," she writes of her work. "Weaving has taught me how parameters and strict boundaries (the loom and the warp) allow creativity and exploration to blossom." EMILY KEPULIS is a mixed media visual artist and muralist living in Portland, Oregon. Her work explores the concepts of home and selfhood and how they are shaped by memory and experiences, recurrently changing and nonlinear. Materializing into imagined landscapes that often home soluble, ambulating figures, Kepulis’s paintings acknowledge home as a physical place as well as a place within the body and a locus of perception.
