DATE: September 7 through October 13 *EXTENDED THROUGH OCTOBER 20th*
Opening reception, Friday, September 7, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
LOCATION: 450 Harrison Ave #309
HOURS: By appointment
Rydz’s work focuses on contemporary coastlines and ways our everyday lives impact and are impacted by changing oceans. Unravel to Splice includes new work exploring connections between everyday actions and lasting impacts, fleeting and geological time, unstable and seemingly fixed conditions.
Over the last decade Rydz has studied, collected, and documented remnants of modern life washed ashorethe Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf Coasts in North and South America. These field studies have inspired the imagery in her work and have led to ongoing investigations mapping global currents and what travels above and below their surfaces. Walking for days along coasts with massive amounts of debris, she imagines future archeologists excavating the residues of our contemporary history. While the cluttered surfaces map accumulated waste and excess, the coasts’ most poignant effect is its status as harbinger of possible future landscapes. Rydz experiences along the boundaries of land and sea are translated into drawings as a connection to traditional ways of making through slow repetitive hand gestures – a sharp contrast to the mass-produced and quickly disposed objects often depicted in her work. Through detailed visual descriptions of surface, Evelyn Rydz’s drawings aim to create a space for perceiving texture and participating in imagining how something has been transformed through the passage of time
Her new works delve deeper into the handmade and continue to explore the intersection of environmental and cultural change. The title Unravel to Splice comes from the instructions for joining two ropes – one must first unravel the ends of both ropes before they can be put together as one. To unravel is to fray and come apart, but it is also is about solving something. Rydz was drawn to the instructions and how they might also suggest a close investigation and understanding as a starting point for connecting and mending disparate broken parts. The aim of her work is to cultivate multiple perspectives, from individual to global currents and the cumulative human actions that link them and us together.
Please join us for this stunning exhibition: Friday, September 7th, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
