2023 Summer Exhibitions Opening
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 S. 12th Street
Join Bemis and several of the exhibiting artists to celebrate the opening of Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence and Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Eat Bitterness.
Mequitta Ahuja, Ancestor, 2022. Oil on canvas, 80 x 84 inches. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Becky Suss, 8 Greenwood Place (1997-99), 2022. Oil on canvas, 72 x 84 x 1.5 inches. Photo courtesy of Beth Rudin DeWoody.
Celeste Rapone, Living Room, 2022. Oil on canvas, 66 x 52 1/8 inches. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Maia Cruz Palileo, All the crossed out, 2021. Oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches. Photo courtesy of the artist, Monique Meloche Gallery, and the Collection of David and Pamela Hornik.
Kathy Liao, Fortune Telling, 2020. Oil on canvas, 64 x 56 inches. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Andrea Heimer, Little Earthquakes In Montana Vibrate The Soles Of Your Feet, Like You’ve Stepped On A Nest Of Bees. A Tiny Hum. Their Small Presence Made Me Know A Bigger Earthquake Was Always Possible. Inevitable Even. When I Learned I Was Adopted A Big Earthquake Happened In Me. A Seismic Shift, A Change. Because There Was A Before And After, Which I Guess Can Be Said About Anything Knowable That Was First Not Known. It’s Not That There Weren’t Signs. Little Vibrations. Tiny Hums Under My Feet, 2021. Acrylic and oil pastel on panel, 40 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the Michael Indenbaum Collection. Photo courtesy of Nino Mier Gallery and Andrea Joyce Heimer Studio.
Lilli Carre, Glazing, 2021. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence spotlights a group of women and non-binary artists who collectively uncover and chronicle the intimate and immanent aspects of daily life, spotlighting interiority as not only personal but political. In revealing the presence of daily challenges, memories, and the wants and needs of our bodies, the works touch upon what we continue to yearn for–personal growth, fulfillment, and space to be ourselves and be with ourselves.
Jennifer Ling Datchuk, My Neck, My Back, 2022. Porcelain, Courtesy of the Artist and John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
Jennifer Ling Datchuk, like freckles, like eggshells, like stone, 2022. Ceramic, Courtesy of the Artist and John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Eat Bitterness is an exploration of the artist’s layered identity–as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an “American,” and as a third culture kid. Trained in ceramics and often working with porcelain and other materials associated with traditional women’s work such as textiles and hair, her practice discusses fragility, beauty, femininity, intersectionality, identity, and her personal history. Through material culture, the history of craft, and by championing the handmade, she challenges the social, political, and cultural systems that continue to hold women back.
Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence and Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Eat Bitterness generously supported, in part, by:
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