RUSCHMAN
Chicago
RUSCHMAN.BLUE
@ericruschman / eruschman@gmail.com/ Future Fair Conversations: Eric Ruschman & Squeak Cornwath / Artsy
RUSCHMAN presents an exhibition of works by three women devoted to the medium of painting; Sarah Bastress, Mari Eastman, and Squeak Carnwath.
Collectively, each of these artists collapse both personal and political narratives into their compositions and images via any means necessary. Presented together, a clear lineage can be traced through three generations of artistry. And while it is tempting to view this lineage as a chronology—Carnwath's visceral and vulnerable combinations of text and image from the early 1980's, to Eastman's tender renderings of women with animals in the early 2000's, to Bastress' often challenging depictions of rural feminism and queer sex—this exhibition's interest is in bucking the trend of a single narrative or a lineage that exists on a line. Like the scenes, textures, and texts associated with each of these artists' paintings, this exhibition seeks to create a dialogue where a recent MFA graduate's paintings (that arguably exist because of those the artists that came before) can re-contextualize seminal works from decades prior; and where myriad modes of representation (in painting, in bodies, in gesture, in demeanor, etc) can coalesce and disperse at will.