Asya Geisberg Gallery
New York City
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Rebecca Morgan works in painting, drawing, and ceramics that use folk tradition and a sly sense of humor to subvert stereotypes of Appalachia. Her ceramic face jugs reference the vernacular art form prevalent in her region, and function as hyper-detailed pimply portraits of blissful ignorance or self-acceptance. Her newest series of brass busts add art-historical context to her personifications.
Trish Tillman’s sculpture juxtaposes diverse materials, fusing industrial components with decorative elements like hair, leather, rope and chains to create talismans, transcending function to reflect material fetishism and idiosyncratic cultural references. Her sly echo of Minimalist sculptures mixes with Pop material and a Postmodern rejection of strict binaries of high/low, made/bought, and transformed/unadulterated.
Shane Walsh’s process begins with collages constructed from photocopies of shapes and marks - some expressive, others graphic or digital - which respond to the history of abstract painting. His interest in the technique stems from punk and hip-hop ephemera, modernist collage traditions, and photocopies as a metaphor for our understanding of abstraction, altered as paintings are transmitted and reproduced through time and culture.