Round 16, A Realm of Disquiet by Aimée M. Everett
April 10 – May 8
Aimée M. Everett is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. She now lives and works in Austin, Texas. Everett’s work has been showcased in galleries and included in collections in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Dallas, Austin, and Canada.
“Disquiet, anxiety, and worry are a few entities that have become fixtures in my life within the past year. With my mind being the cage they all live in, this project has arrived during a pivotal time to interrogate and give space to these Titans. Metal and wood are the materials I chose due to their pliant nature with hopes that their manipulation, aging and rusting, will begin the conduction of relief.” -Aimée M. Everett
Aimée is interested in exploring and asking the question, “What lingers in the silences we hold between each spoken word?” She believes this is where our true emotions live. She is aiming to excavate and examine these silences, the ones that have been handed down generation after generation and the ones acquired as we maneuver through the world. She is attempting a new way to interpret the unsaid, attempting to reach viewers in ways words cannot. The exploration of this nonverbal language begins by Aimée confronting and questioning her own silences in writing. She confronts experiences, feelings, and thoughts from life and those that have been shared from other people’s perspectives. Employing expressive minimalism as her vehicle; line making, atmospheric color, and texture, she invites the viewer to investigate the unspoken silences that linger between words.
Round 17, Roadside Geology by AYA (b.hannah alpert)
May 15 – June 18
AYA (b. hannah alpert) is a dynamic creative designer with over 10 years of experience in art direction, creative strategy, fabrication, and team leadership across multiple creative industries.
“[The picturesque] in landscape might be [in part] defined, ‘that disposition of objects which, by a partial and uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity.’ ”
— Sir Uvedale Price, in his 1796 Essay on the Picturesque: as compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful
ROADSIDE GEOLOGY shares its name with a classic 30+ book series started in 1972 by Mountain Press, which describe geological formations as they are most often viewed, revealed by road cuts, seen from a car window, while driving on major roadways. In the edition of Roadside Geology of Texas, written and illustrated by Darwin Spearing, the area surrounding the location of ROADSIDE GEOLOGY is described: The rocks around Austin are mostly limestone, but dolomite, clay, basalt, tuff, sandstones, and river gravel are also present. A band of white limestone, called the Austin Chalk…cuts a swath down the center of the city. You can get a quick Highway look at the Austin Chalk…on Interstate 35 at Slaughter Creek about five miles south of the city. – Sir Uvedale Price, in his 1796 Essay on the Picturesque: as compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful ROADSIDE GEOLOGY can be observed from the viewers car. The three crosscuts of earth are composed of crushed limestone, sand, clay, and gravel. Each crosscut is embedded with distinct material signatures from the current geological age (also known as the anthropocene). The three different materials – metal, cement, and marble – will affect the erosion of its respective block over time, and form new compositions through constant exposure to local elements. ROADSIDE GEOLOGY is an indeterminate experiment, a simulation of how the picturesque may exist in the context of the current Anthropocene.