Glean

Zoe Berg and Valérie Chaussonnet

November 13 - December 4, 2021

Opening Reception: November 13, 4-6 pm
Closing Reception: December 4, 5-8 pm

Video Screenings: Nov 13, Nov 20, Dec 4: 5:30-7:30PM

GLEAN is a meditation on Nature, generations, transmission, cultivation, and Origins. The exhibit includes steel sculptures, site-specific installations, a zine, drawings, and a two-channel video. The  filming of the video started on Agnes Varda’s birthday. It portrays two friends going about creating art, gardening, eating, swimming, and laughing. Actors include a piece of turf long-maintained in Valérie’s garden in honor of Dürer; 17th-century pioneer naturalist artist Maria Sybilla Merian; Vincent Van Gogh; toads; and cicadas.

Valérie Chaussonnet is a French-born, Austin-based sculptor and painter. She studied sculpture at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, DC while working as a museum anthropologist and curator at the Smithsonian Institution, a specialist of Siberia and the Arctic. She studied blacksmithing and welding at Austin Community College after moving to Texas to raise a family in 1997. She has participated in over fifty group shows nationally in the past few years, including a large solo show at the Arts Council, Midland and a three-person show at the Georgetown Art Center. She has exhibited at Dimension Gallery and Co-Lab in Austin; the Austin Museum of Art; the Lawndale Art Center in Houston; the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan; Artspace111 in Fort Worth; the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas; the San Angelo Sunken Garden Sculpture Park and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts; the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum and the Neill-Cochran House and Museum in Austin; and the Contemporary Art Museum in Plainview, Texas.

Zoe Berg was born on a fall morning in Austin, Texas, where she currently lives and works. She received her BFA in Studio Art from The University of Texas at Austin and MFA in Sculpture at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University in Philadelphia. Berg participated in Land Arts of the American West in 2012; attended ACRE in 2014; and in 2015 received the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund from the Dallas Museum of Art. In 2019, she attended Vermont Studio Center on a full fellowship; participated in the Hotbox Residency at MASS Gallery; and attended Ox-Bow’s Fall Artist and Writers’ Residency. She has shown and performed in Austin at Co-Lab, MASS Gallery, Northern-Southern, and had a solo exhibition at UT-Austin’s Visual Arts Center. She has also shown in Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia.