Alto Beta Gallery presents a solo show by artist Clare Hawkinson.
“Across this body of painting/sculpture hybrids, my methodology is cyclical and digressive, patterned and simultaneous: on riverbanks and pavement, sand, soil, and soot, in any place I take up residence in, I find myself as the mudlarker, beachcomber, gleaner, waste picker. I walk with eyes oriented downwards, and work tethered to the ground, speculatively sorting and composing, repetitively picking, peeling, containing. Fragments are mended and joined, transformed and preserved in material binders. I see these gestures in alignment with craft traditions and queer, feminine visual aesthetics historically associated with excess, waste, repair, and reuse. As much as my practice measures then reworks my own consumption of matter, I am focused on more generally considering how humans develop reciprocal relationships with the in-human, object, or refuse under social conditions of excess, isolation, or instability. I consider how bringing our bodies into closer proximity to the microscopic, the material realities of our surroundings, inadvertently exposes underlying sociopolitical and environmental conditions.”
Gallery Hours:
Saturday and Sunday, 12 - 5pm