Round 10, My Little Runaway by Alex Goss
March 11 – May 19
Alex Goss has held solo exhibitions and screenings of his work in Austin, Baltimore, New York, Houston, and Richmond, VA. He has worked as a High School woodshop teacher and professor of Sculpture and Video in addition to working in the precision manufacturing industry as a CNC programmer and machinist. He received his BFA in studio art from the Cooper Union in New York, and his MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University. Goss also attended a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014.
Round 10, “My Little Runaway” by Houston-based artist Alex Goss. In his installation, Goss references his own mutation. By animating custom made, six-fingered latex gloves, “My Little Runaway” fantasizes on an unrequited relationship with a forbidden and lost appendage. A single, motor-driven belt threads each spectral hand together; flopping and flailing, they rotate in their own eccentric paths within the cycle of motion. This figurative and literal loop functions as a monument for anatomies and identities that fall along the periphery of established boundaries.
Round 11, Gustavo Gómez-Brechtel
June 7 – August 25
“Using industrial materials such as paraffin wax, copper, and rebar, Gómez Brechtel installation will approach the concept of autopsies – Defined as a system of reproducing and maintaining itself – to materialize the environment context and conditions of viewing in the Texas summer.”
Gustavo Gómez Brechtel is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in Mexico City. His practice focuses on a liminal space between science and art, utilizing empirical observation as a method for approaching natural materials and processes in an artistic capacity. Frequently working with living plant life, the artist explores the aesthetics of entropy and photosynthesis using system-based drawings, installations and sculptures.
Round 12, Base Camp by Leah Dyjak
September 7 – December 15
Leah Dyjak received their MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. They are currently a director of photography on a docu-series created by writer, director, and producer Joey Soloway in addition to other projects. Their work is in multiple private collections and has been acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. In 2022 they received the prestigious Howard Foundation Grant through Brown University to fund their documentary film, As we play god. Recent publications include The Architectural Review, London UK, and The Leonardo Journal of Art and Science, MIT Press. Dyjak is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown Massachusetts. Leah is working on a feature-length documentary about rising water, failing infrastructure, and coastal restoration
Round 12: Base Camp by Massachusetts based artist Leah Dyjak. For this installation, Dyjak questions the structure and authority of maps as pre-constructed realities. By placing semi-transparent images in wooden markers, Base Camp imitates the language of visual signage and guides. Held up by flood prevention bags and illuminated by floodlights at night, the kiosks function as a meditation on water and collective fatigue in negotiating impending ecological collapse and mass displacement.
Leah Dyjak is an interdisciplinary, lens-based artist splitting their time between Massachusetts and elsewhere.Their site-specific work combines performance, labor, film, and photography to explore how generations of human use affect the ecologies of the place. Dyjak is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Video at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and was recently a recipient of a Goldfarb fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program.