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Opening Saturday October 25th 6-9pm
Spaysky Fine Art Gallery LLC presents “In the Desert, a Mouth," a Two-Person Exhibition Featuring Works by Ashley Cook and Mary Kate Huffman.
The exhibition brings together two artists who share a common studio and engage in dialogue but have very distinct approaches to art-making. Mary Kate presents assemblage sculptures composed of flimsy, mass-produced material that make disconnected references to aspirational wealth to create sculptures in the form of misfunctional objects and dioramas. Ashley Cook creates oil paintings that pull from the drama of expressive historical sculpture, reinterpreted into dreamlike compositions washed in pale pastels. Her figures appear suspended in meditative calm, yet carry an undertow of unsettling surrealism.
A shared motif within the exhibition is the cowboy hat. Recently used by tech billionaires trying to evoke a sense of the “frontier,” Huffman and Cook use the hat as a symbol of arrogantly squandered resources in a world marked by increasing scarcity and existential unease.
Titled from a subtle change to a song title on Pavement’s album Slanted and Enchanted, In the Desert, a Mouth is an exhibition of subtleties that express the absurd aesthetics of a world unraveling.
Mary Kate Huffman (b.1993 in Boone, NC) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Detroit. Her tongue-in-cheek visual language is informed by the influence of her political cartoonist grandfather; and her experience with poverty and depression.
Ashley Cook is an artist and writer who lives in Detroit. She earned her BFA from College for Creative Studies in Detroit in 2009, and in 2017, earned her MFA from Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva, Switzerland. Much of her exhibition history has taken place within artist-run and DIY spaces, a culture that she is an active participant in. Some of these spaces include CAVE Gallery(Detroit, MI), an abandoned car wash(Hamtramck, MI), Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Les Mouches(Geneva, CH), under a bridge(Geneva, CH), Forde (Geneva, CH), TOPIC(Geneva, CH), Zabriski Point(Geneva,CH), Hamtramck Ceramck(Hamtramck, MI), Loner(Paris, FR), and Spaysky Fine Art Gallery (Detroit, MI).
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The exhibition brings together two artists who share a common studio and engage in dialogue but have very distinct approaches to art-making. Mary Kate presents assemblage sculptures composed of flimsy, mass-produced material that make disconnected references to aspirational wealth to create sculptures in the form of misfunctional objects and dioramas. Ashley Cook creates oil paintings that pull from the drama of expressive historical sculpture, reinterpreted into dreamlike compositions washed in pale pastels. Her figures appear suspended in meditative calm, yet carry an undertow of unsettling surrealism.
A shared motif within the exhibition is the cowboy hat. Recently used by tech billionaires trying to evoke a sense of the “frontier,” Huffman and Cook use the hat as a symbol of arrogantly squandered resources in a world marked by increasing scarcity and existential unease.
Titled from a subtle change to a song title on Pavement’s album Slanted and Enchanted, In the Desert, a Mouth is an exhibition of subtleties that express the absurd aesthetics of a world unraveling.
Mary Kate Huffman (b.1993 in Boone, NC) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Detroit. Her tongue-in-cheek visual language is informed by the influence of her political cartoonist grandfather; and her experience with poverty and depression.
Ashley Cook is an artist and writer who lives in Detroit. She earned her BFA from College for Creative Studies in Detroit in 2009, and in 2017, earned her MFA from Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva, Switzerland. Much of her exhibition history has taken place within artist-run and DIY spaces, a culture that she is an active participant in. Some of these spaces include CAVE Gallery(Detroit, MI), an abandoned car wash(Hamtramck, MI), Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Les Mouches(Geneva, CH), under a bridge(Geneva, CH), Forde (Geneva, CH), TOPIC(Geneva, CH), Zabriski Point(Geneva,CH), Hamtramck Ceramck(Hamtramck, MI), Loner(Paris, FR), and Spaysky Fine Art Gallery (Detroit, MI).
info@SFAGLLC.site
www.SFAGLLC.site