Molly Dwyer: Viscosity

The more you look at art the stranger the world becomes, or rather your own psyche. Molly's work has me questioning substance and the very atoms of humanity. Where does this dark material come from-- what is the very thing seeping out of all of us...or into us. What has "gotten into you". There is a kind of sick tension made so painfully human by the warm skin tone, the desire to remove myself from this persons alien quality but drawn in by how simply....human it is. As though saying this is every being- every being has the potential to find themselves with the sensation of splitting apart and being consumed, slowly- completely- wholly defeated.
But as always, you must see to make your own framework---
Closing reception: Friday December 2nd
Atrium Gallery
Tyler School of Art

Congrats Molly!
xoxo
-Charlie

Luke Cloran: Wake

Wake- we rise from a trance and seem to enter into a new one, continuously sinking into another strand of reality. We are pulled from our recognized world into another and back again. This mixed media presentation is stimulating in a variety of ways, we are not handed the answers, rather a norm is challenged, our complacency is tested. I have the ability to be mesmerized by beautiful images, to swoon over graceful gradations... but do I want to know more? I do, because the beautiful doesn't capture me for long, the work begins the testing of my own boundaries as a video piece wrenches my gut in a way I cannot remove myself from. Captured in this world of the artist's making, captured in disembodied hands that tell a story I could never express so accurately.
Well done friend,
xoxo
-Charlie

Dec. 8th 6pm- 9p.m.
Stella Elkins Gallery
Tyler School of Art
You all have benefit of hitting up TWO awesome shows by some exceptional people, take advantage of it!

Rachel Kotkoskie: Treppenwitz

Rachel's show, Treppenwitz:thoughts from the bottom of the stairs, is an incredible body of work that has me smirking and thinking. It is hard to evoke both of these within one individual, I'm terribly excited to see this presented, her work speaks for its self... literally, you can practically hear the mumbled comeback and the silent tension. The words that lay on the tip of your tongue before you get the gumption to say them- photographed without hesitation. I am committed to this play between the individuals portrayed, and they are no longer individuals but characters that make mental jabs at one another. A tribute to the silent language of facial expression and the need to say what you cannot speak. Check it out.

Reception: Thursday December 8th
6pm- 9pm
Tyler School of Art- Atrium Gallery

xoxo,
Charlie