January 12 - March 13, 2020
An interactive and communal experience, the exhibition actively incorporated audiences. Two moving orbs served as ambassadors as visitors meandered along in a spiritual, cleansing, and comforting ritual set to a custom soundtrack in celebration of the beauty and power of togetherness.
Also on view for the first time were two new paintings, “A Beautiful Place II” and “Interness”. “Beautiful Place II” was inspired by a set from Hayao Miyazaki’s feature Howl’s Moving Castle. These were the latest in a series of narrative works that take place against impressionist landscapes. The second new painting, Interness, is made of plastiline clay, and one of the latest of the Playworks series, first begun in 2017. In this work, highly recognizable icons rendered from pop culture populate a pictorial field in soft, playful, and at times jarring representations of memory, memes, and the internet.
