Catherine Czacki: universe will take it
May 25 - August 18,2024
From Co-Opt Research and Projects: "amber quick red bead black bead blue bead endless all season drought freeze resistant cilantro fish casings candle mount apples orbs sticks wind chime parts, unassembled a skunk the flight who is democracy, failed fired up and begun again modernisms anti color instead happens prismatically exploding research embodiment tiling with shards eagles for justice, not yet geopolitical magnetic storms factitious fetish fétiche feitiço other spellings same thing the hut a vague animal sacks of electrified water we only have orange mutts microbes learning to eat plastic compressed centuries into diamonds tell my ghost insects eating at the skin is ok for keeping in and out of rhythm house creature speech the white wolf says I am the master of beloved incense burner too tall plate abstraction rest paintings ladybugs mantis moth jumping spider cricket grasshopper banjo bucket window repair each hail dandelion greens surviving refugee camps tell the body a story watch another generation tell the same poppy flower press flute silver in stars as semrug turmeric dye white roof log henge bark scaping returned fascisms of middle future predicted petty nationalisms heat retaining curtains what is the cosmic humans student loans love genocide a solar flare dirt 27 trees what makes appeal empathy percussion aging faster in the mountains than at the sea About the artist: Catherine Czacki is an artist, writer, musician, and educator of Polish/Tatar and American descent living in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Czacki’s practice incorporates ceramics, metal, paper mache, found objects, fabric, wood, eco resin, painting, drawing, critical theory, poetry, and sound. Czacki’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and museums including Sculpture Center in Long Island City, JOAN in Los Angeles, Best Practice in San Diego, Prague Biennale, and Museo Centro De Arte Pepe Espaliú, Córdoba, Spain. Czacki’s poetry, essays, and academic writing have been published by Line Script Diary, Haunt Journal of Art at UC Irvine, and Interactions Journal of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. A full length book of Czacki’s poetry and images titled Creosote was published in 2019. Czacki’s scholarly work intersected de/anti/post colonial studies with thinking through terminologies imposed on artists that can limit the understanding of artistic and social roles in communities, such as the term outsider. Additional fields of study are gardening, DIY repairing and building, herbalism, human, animal, plant, material relationships, organic communities, everyday histories or folklores and the diasporic and wide traveling evil eye which intersects with Czacki’s own familial past."
Reception: May 25, 2024 | 5-8 pm
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