Sharp Hands Gallery Spring 2021
CURATORS’ NOTES
From the dark, chilling pandemic winter and into the hopeful spring, we have persevered with strength and fashionable face masks to bring you our third show at Sharp Hands Gallery!
This fresh group of artists deliver a Spring abundance of never-before-seen work to wake up your eyes. The geography of this show goes from here in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.—Larry Calkins’ adventurous photomontages—to the Southwest—prolific collage inventor Zach Collins’s three-dimensional surprises—and then down to the South, where Hollie Chastain’s Confidential series evokes an intimacy with its mysterious and tactile elements. On the other side of the northern border in Canada, we’re thrilled to debut new creations by the inspiring and groundbreaking Jealous Curator herself, Danielle Krysa, who brings some of her favorite artists to collage life. The bold, hard cuts of Mexico City-based artist and printer Jay Berrones introduces abstract memories back to your senses, like dusty billboards or pasted posters tearing off their surfaces. Across the Atlantic, somewhere in France, we’ve discovered the wild and anxious collage blasts of Julian Foster, sometimes featuring transfers of virus shapes that look like they could have been the notebook doodles of a student in quarantine.
We’re excited to bring you all of the fine, thoughtful work by these artists, and as usual we urge you to follow all of them on Instagram. And don’t forget that most of these works are for sale (contact us for individual prices).
Altogether, these thirty-six pieces show a wide range of approaches, styles, and attitudes. As we continue to find and meet more artists and collage enthusiasts from around the globe, our excitement grows for the future. Even in dark days, the art we all make sheds light on the beauty, absurdity, and the unexpected in this world.
Thank you for visiting,
Cheryl Chudyk & Kevin Sampsell, curators
