September 9, 2017 – October 29, 2017
FLEET is an artist collective of six members; Michael Colaianni, Haley Hill, Brooke Johnson, Emily Lee, Tín Rodriguez, and Connor Walden. Their collaborative work centers around reactions to changing physical and conceptual environments, as well as responses to the current political climate that are performed through a lens of absurdity.
Round 4, Work In Progress–a pop-up shop calling attention to the unseen labor of today’s marketable craft aesthetic–is officially open for business, and we’ve got just what you need: Handmade Quality Objects, Happiness Guaranteed™! Stop by our artists’ maker space for our Grand Opening Celebration at the Cage Match Project and leave with a unique, artisanal work of art! -Fleet
Michael Colaianni @michaelcolaianni
Haley Hill is a Texas-based food, beverage, and product photographer @haleyrhill
https://www.haleyrhill.com/still-life
Brooke Johnson is an artist whose work has been featured in numerous key galleries and museums such as Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin. Johnson has been featured in articles for Glasstire and Art Daily. In 2019, Johnson received an Artist Award by Dallas Museum of Art. https://brookejohnson.format.com/8785781-oozy-rat-in-a-sanitary-zoo
Emily Lee (b.1996, Beaumont, TX) is an installation-based artist living in Texas whose output includes a wide range of media and processes including sculpture, image-making, video, object theater, communal events, and critical writing. Their works are site-specific installations of multiple parts. These parts––an aluminum cast of a circle drawn in sand, a space heater, a kodak photograph Lee shot at age seven, segments of a broken jade bracelet, to name a few–are used and then re-used in other installations, creating a multimedia vocabulary of parts. This repetition allows Lee to investigate the site itself and the habit of meaning-making through objects. https://leeemily.com/
Connor Walden was Raised with a twin brother in a conservative Christian suburb of Dallas, Connor Walden is an artist currently in Los Angeles. After spending his formative years as an adult in the liberal secular cities of Austin and Seattle, Connor finds himself in a state of ambivalence, holding a complex of feelings, ideologies, and communities. In order to continue this dialectic move, Connor’s studio becomes a playground to feel around for common threads and pokey stitches. His current body of work investigates the relationship between steel and yarn, two materials he learned to work with from his grandfather and grandmother, respectively. Playfully and intuitively made, the works explore the tension and relationship between hard and soft, heavy and light, tough and tender—while also confronting the gendered context of material to parallel his own identity formation.
Connor has exhibited throughout the US, including Seattle, Austin, Los Angeles. He is in collections in California, Washington, and Texas. @connor_walden https://www.connorwaldenart.com/
Tín Rodriguez is an artist whose work has been featured at the Visual Arts Center, University of Texas. In 2019, Rodriguez was featured in Top Five: January 24, 2019, a piece from Glasstire.
