INTERNAL MAPPING
On View September 8-November 4, 2023
The human brain is an entangled landscape working to organize an individual’s experiences of internal and external stimuli. Influenced by their mind’s own algorithms, the six artists featured in INTERNAL MAPPING dive into the intricate tapestry of human existence through painting, printmaking, 3D printed sculpture and mixed media. By exploring the profound connection between their inner and outer world, complex mark making develops. These exhibiting artists use their artistic process to explore the network of the human psyche to make sense of our world and how we are a part of it.
This group exhibition features the work of Heather Patterson, Blair Vaughn-Gruler, Farida Hughes, Deidre Adams, Ren Cannon, and Jonathan Hils.
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HEATHER PATTERSON
Focusing on mapping the natural landscape, HEATHER PATTERSON’s work is a documentation of the topography of our environment. Recreating geographic patterns, Patterson layers them to make up a new series of abstracted terrain. This morphing of forms combines imagery depicting weather systems and changing weather patterns, topographic map lines, aerial views of the landscape, animal migration patterns, cellular structures, water movement patterns, lichen on boulders, rock and ice formations, and other natural phenomena.
BLAIR VAUGHN-GRULER
Trying to define the conceptual union between unloading the silverware from the dishwasher while watching a glorious sunset, BLAIR VAUGHN-GRULER finds interest in how to synthesize internal record keeping and mental organizational strategies with the observations and experiences that occur in daily life. The overlap of these two essential life processes is what she strives to find and describe in her painting practice.
FARIDA HUGHES
FARIDA HUGHES creates colorful, abstract artwork about human connectivity. These new paintings are a symbolic and layered mapping of remembered movements and conversations at social gatherings. The pieces are either inspired by specific events cemented in the brain, or manifest as poetic renderings where the faceted shapes of thoughts and conversations become an underlying web of communal interactions.
REN CANNON
Using colors derived from industrial waste and mine spills, REN CANNON is interested in the dynamic between the beauty of the colors versus the damage that industrial waste is doing the environment. A contrast in natural and human caused color, a study in the movement of streams or rivers be those on land or atmospheric. These works are a look into how humans have affected the flow and color of the environment that surrounds us.
DEIDRE ADAMS
To be human is to ponder the mysteries of our world and our existence. DEIDRE ADAMS explores the innate human need to observe and learn about his world as well as to communicate this knowledge with others. Mapping is the process of recording, remembering, organizing, and documenting the experience of any physical or mental realm. Adams references this process through her own system of mark-making combines with the formal elements of abstract painting- line, shape, color, and texture.
JONATHAN HILS
JONATHAN HILS’ works are an amalgamation of appropriated visual and data-based information taken from various sources that mimic or are translations of the natural world presented through digital interfaces. His practice is that of a digital archeologist examining how we exist with technology and how it is ever impactful ecosystem in and of itself. Using traditional techniques and digital tools, Hils synthesizes the current state of our evolving relationship with information and artificial intelligence into dense, colorful, and vibrant visual artworks.
