LAMP

curated by Ariel Wood
Opening Reception: April 18, 6-9pm
On view Saturdays, 12-5pm from April 18th - May 23rd

LAMP is a group exhibition rooted in practices of accumulation and adornment. Primarily sculptural, the works span ceramic, papier-mâché, textiles, and found objects—materials that carry the marks of touch, use, and return. The exhibition draws inspiration from the fantastical potential of a bookshelf alcove crowded with knickknacks, and from the push and pull of a warm light bulb: how it reveals the texture of its shade while allowing everything beyond its beam to slip into shadow. LAMP lingers in this tension—between illumination and obscurity, excess and intimacy—asking what it means to look again at what we already have. At its core, LAMP is about making a home. Home here is not fixed, but a space of continual return. Each return brings something new: an object, a gesture, a layer. Through acts of adornment, familiar things are re-seen and re-translated. Function is rendered implicit; materiality, charm, and care emerges energetically.

Participating Artists:

Caroline Perkison is a multidisciplinary artist based in Cleveland, Ohio, originally from Houston, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BFA in Studio Art and an MFA in Painting from Kent State University. She is currently an adjunct instructor at Kent State University. Her work centers around the domestic spaces and how we decorate and customize them. She explores where joyous moments of kitsch and camp exist alongside emptiness and remnants. She illustrates this with a playful sincerity through textiles, paintings, and sculpture, incorporating bright patterning, textures, and wonky forms in her work.

Emma Rossoff (b. 1992, New York, NY) is an artist based in Chicago, IL. She holds an MFA in Sculpture & Extended Media from the University of Texas at Austin (2022) and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Columbia University (2016). She also completed the foundation year at the Rhode Island School of Design and studied Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins. She has trained in furniture making at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship and studied woodcarving and etching at the Art Students League of New York. Rossoff has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Bunker Projects, Rockland Woods, and Stove Works. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including two solo exhibitions in Austin, Texas in 2023.

Gabrielle Constantine. Giving fake Tiffany, bought from the trunk of a Cadillac, to Rachel Cohen for her Bat Mitzvah. Microwaving lavash and string cheese for an after-school snack. Tending to a mustache and beard since 5th grade. Going to the AC Tropicana for weekend “getaways”. Watching Cher in Moonstruck every night before bed. Drinking milk from a martini glass. This is Constantine's DNA. Gabrielle Constantine (1994) was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she received her double BFA in Sculpture and Fibers and Material studies at the Tyler School of Art (2017). She’s currently living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and holds an MFA at The University of Texas of Austin (2023) . Growing up in an Armenian Community and the restaurant industry has inexplicably informed her material, linguistic, and performative decisions surrounding her sculptures, installations, and gatherings. Alongside her more sculptural practice, Constantine has shared in cooking dinners and hosting gatherings with communities in Philadelphia, Mexico City, Austin, and is consistently and continually innovating ways of gathering community through art and food.

Jamie Lerman (b.1998) is a ceramic artist based in Chicago, IL. Having grown up in Texas between a Baptist Church and Reform Synagogue, she places her spiritual upbringing under a critical lens, reflecting on ideas of adaptation, transformation, and sentimentality. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and has most recently completed an Artist in Residence position with the Dougherty Arts Center in Austin, Texas and has been in residence with Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Edgecomb, Maine, Oxbow School of Art in Saugatuck, Michigan, and Mass Gallery in Austin, Texas. Her work has been featured in Glass Tire and A.Y.F.P (A Yarn & Fibre Publication). In addition to sculpture, Lerman operates Double Cradle, a pottery project designed to celebrate the sentimental; a creation of objects that we can't help but hold with both hands. All pieces are hand-built with care and attention by the artist.

Julia Kunze works in a Dark Whackademia aesthetic, using romance novel tropes to examine desire and self-authorship. She primarily works in clay and cardboard, crafting oversized, book-ish sculptures that include rewritten and personalized romance novels. The books are aesthetically inspired by home-style craft projects popular on Pinterest, like folded and crystallized books. The work leans into the absurdity and accessibility of the romance novel genre, placing the artist inside recognizable love tropes to question how romantic narratives shape identity and completion through humor and material transformation.

Magdalena Jarkowiec is a Polish-born artist, writer, and psychotherapist. Her art practice centers mostly around soft sculpture and dance which often intersect in unusual installations. She loves humor and is interested in the strangeness of life, particularly the strangeness of being a physical form. Kinship is also a big theme in her work; her sculpture practice grew out of a love of sewing that she inherited from her Polish grandmother.. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2021) and a BA from the New College of Florida (2001). Visual and dance work: magsjarks.com. Writing: substack.com/@magsjarks.

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