SOMATIC GESTURE
Featuring: Ruth Asawa, Amanda Curreri, Jay DeFeo,
Rosy Keyser, Bessma Khalaf, Sonya Rapoport, Brie Ruais and Suné Woods

February 1 - March 17, 2018
@ 1275 MINNESOTA ST / Gallery 105
Artist reception: Saturday, February 24th | 5–8pm

Somatic Gesture, installation image

RUTH ASAWA
Untitled (S.573), 1953, iron and enameled copper wire, 63.5" x 20" x 20"

AMANDA CURRERI
Gestures (Proteggere, Rubare), 2018
Hand-dyed and hand-printed fabrics with indigo, madder, soot/soya dyes and acrylic on various fabrics such as used table cloths, vintage Japanese linen, and cotton kimono fabric; vintage Japanese silk, Japanese denim (new), American denim (new), deconstructed denim jeans pocket, screenprint on paper, digital print on fabric, recycled American flag cut-offs, and thread, 96" x 72" (two-sided)

BRIE RUAIS
How to Corner Yourself (The First Remove), 130 lbs, 2016, Glazed ceramic, 79.5" x 17" x 18"

JAY DEFEO
Impressions of Africa No. 1, (Estate no. E1031), 1986, oil and alkyd on paper, 50" x 38"

SONYA RAPOPORT
Christo and Cornell (Yarn Drawing No. 9), 1976, pencil, colored pencil, stamp, ink and thread on found continuous-feed computer paper, 59.5" x 66"

ROSY KEYSER
Paradise Strobe, 2016, oil, oil pastel, wooden beads, twine, and mica on canvas, 82" x 64"

SUNÉ WOODS
Traveling Like the Light II, 2015, mixed media collage, 59" x 57"

BESSMA KHALAF
Burnout Mountain, 2018, archival pigment print, mounted on Dibond and framed, 50" x 33", edition 1 of 3

Resistance is one of the factors necessary to make us realize the characteristics of our medium and make us question our work procedure. We learn patience and endurance in following through a piece of work. We learn to respect material in working it. Formed things and thoughts live a life of their own; they radiate a meaning. ―Anni Albers, 1944

This exhibition is not about one thing. Except for the shared somatic-ness. Forged by the body, reacting faster than the mind. Artists arriving at a sense of object-ness wherein the shape moves between the unexpected, beautiful, ugly, smooth, rough. Unfolding. Constructed and composed with a balance of brute physicality and thoughtful finesse, the work shape-shifts from one thing to the next, until it forms a something-ness that has gravitas in what it is and not what it purports to be.

Somatic Gesture features a collection of 8 intergenerational artists. The work spans from sculpture and photography to painting and drawing. Artists include: Ruth Asawa, Amanda Curreri, Jay DeFeo, Rosy Keyser, Bessma Khalaf, Sonya Rapoport, Brie Ruais and Suné Woods.

Organized by Romer Young Gallery in partnership with Minnesota Street Project.

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SOMATIC GESTUREFeaturing: Ruth Asawa, Amanda Curreri, Jay DeFeo,Rosy Keyser, Bessma Khalaf, Sonya Rapoport, Brie Ruais and Suné Woods

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SOMATIC GESTURE
Featuring: Ruth Asawa, Amanda Curreri, Jay DeFeo,
Rosy Keyser, Bessma Khalaf, Sonya Rapoport, Brie Ruais and Suné Woods