Big Pour

June 14 - July 19, 2025
Opening: June 14, 7—9pm
Exhibition curated by Erin Miller

Big Pour is a collaborative exhibition by Audrey Blood, Erin Miller, and Alexandre Pépin, rooted in the physical and sensory act of papermaking. Created through an intensive, process-driven approach, the works explore the relationship between body, memory, and material. Impressions of touch, color, and movement echo the artists’ shared experiences—both meditative and improvisational—as they navigated vulnerability, trust, and transformation through making.

The exhibition also includes community-made pulp paintings, created during a public workshop and incorporated into the show in improvisational ways. Big Pour is a celebration of collaboration, contemplation, and the power of sensation to shape meaning.It is an embrace of uncertainty.

About The Artists:

Alexandre Pépin is a French-Canadian artist born in Tio'tia:ke (Montréal) and currently based in Austin, TX. His work explores ideas of impermanence, emptiness and non-attachment to celebrate an immediate and fundamental joy of painting. His paintings invite the viewer on a nonlinear journey across physical and psychological landscapes. Notable solo and group exhibitions include Horizons at Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (2025), A Soft Tension at Chili Art Projects, London (2024), Belongings at North Loop Gallery, Williamstown (2024), The Lover’s Walk at Arsenal, New York (2022) and Painted Hooves at the Visual Arts Center in Austin (2022). He is the recipient of several awards and scholarships including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and his work has been reviewed in Esse Arts + Opinions (2021), New American Painting (2022), Glasstire (2022), and Sightlines Magazine (2022). Pépin received a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the University of Texas, and is currently Assistant Professor of Practice at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. The artist has upcoming exhibitions scheduled for London (UK), Austin, New York and LA (USA).
https://www.alexandrepepin.ca/

Audrey Blood is an artist based in Austin, TX. While her work is predominantly sculptural, installation-based, and tactilely driven, it is rooted in the principles of printmaking, specifically, process, material, and a sense of play. Her work navigates the translation of surface, material memory, and specificity of place, and examines the often-invisible scaffolding of inherited familial dynamics. Water acts as a silent collaborator, a connective force between material bodies, and emotional, affectual, states. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking and a Certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art and Design from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2018 and her Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art from Bowdoin College in 2013. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Printmaking at Colby College, and has taught at The University of Texas at Austin, Rhode Island School of Design, and the deYoung Museum
https://www.audreyblood.com/

Erin Miller (she/her) is an artist based in Austin, TX. While using print as a starting point, she traverses between disciplines—painting, drawing, textile-work, and sculptural installation—to investigate themes of perception. Textiles, carpeting, dyeing, and bleaching inspire a material exploration beyond the printing press, conflating in form and subject matter theatrically. Movie sets, casino carpets, stage design, prop building, and neural pathways serve as anchoring points, where techniques of doubling are incorporated. In 2022 she received an MFA from Cornell University, where she was the recipient of the Kip Brady Memorial Prize in printmaking and the John Hartell Graduate Award in studio excellence. She has completed the Kahn Family Fellowship at the Ink Shop, located in Ithaca, NY and is a Lecturer and the Printmaking Area Lab Technician at the University of Texas at Austin, along with being a member of MASS Gallery.
https://www.erinmillerstudio.com/