TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME
Curated by Julie McKim
Opening Reception at Project: ARTspace
Thursday, October 20, 2022, 6-8pm
October 20 - December 16, 2022
Featuring work by Eric Ramos Guerrero, Jennifer May Reiland, Molly Springfield.
PRESS RELEASE / CATALOG
***CLOSING RECEPTION & CATALOGUE LAUNCH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 6-8PM***
Project: ARTspace is pleased to present Take the Long Way Home, an exhibition curated by Julie McKim that brings together the work of Eric Ramos Guerrero, Jennifer May Reiland and Molly Springfield.
There is an underlying sense of rebellion in the drawing-based work of the artists in Take the Long Way Home. A kind of unnamed defiance that runs through the subjects they depict, the way they push their chosen mediums, and the challenges they undertake in both scale and detail. Their practices are labor-intensive, and they share a similarity in how they employ their work as a tool to delve deeply into a topic. They use graphite, pen, watercolor, and an all-encompassing attention to detail to construct precise and intricate images and compositions that, when closely examined, provide layer upon layer of unexpected information.
These artist take the long way in their work, whether they are precisely hand-copying the corrected manuscripts of virginia Woolf, exploring the US/Mexican Border through a dystopian southern California landscape, or examining the history of religious martyrdom as a way to understand contemporary gender roles.
