NOTHING LOST, NOTHING GAINED

Curatorial Statement 

A body in motion will stay in motion unless an outside force acts upon it. Without gravity, velocity, friction, we hurdle momentously through a vacuum filled with a finite amount of constantly mutating energy. Transference of energy from a stored potential state to a dynamically kinetic one is implied, assumed and necessary for all universal and material functions.

There exists a splitting point between stasis and motion, where possibilities are limitless, dragged out indefinitely. A point of perfect mobile equilibrium; when Schrödinger’s cat is simultaneously dead and alive, just before reality rushes in to collapse the tension. Through different uses of media and process, these artists depict and explore this idea of states of infinite pre-transference of thought, form, and energy.

William Lamson’s practice centers on the exploration and manipulation of natural forces. Depicting both remote and familiar locations like the Atacama Desert in Chile, or the East River in New York, films such as Emerge and Untitled (Mylar) evoke nuances of their specific place. Although both works are experienced 4-dimensionally, they stimulate a sense of repetitive stillness when motion is expected, but still surprising.

Citing skateboarding as a predominate influence, Jared Steffensen’s work troubles the line between the domestic and wild. In the series Middle, Steffensen has take panoramic photographs while driving using his iPhone. Due to the imprecise nature of this method, many of the images became spliced, creating stopgaps in both landscape and motion. Creating a distinct slippage between the topography and its depiction, these photographs trouble the boundary between a continuous mobility and abrupt stasis.

Elisabeth Horan’s practice uses the juxtaposition of disparate entities to conjure a discourse of images. Mandala-like, her circular gel-pen drawings radiate energetic confluence while remaining perfectly still. Surreally collaged landscapes reference the geology of the American Southwest, at once iconically familiar and totally alien. An imbroglio of forms, they allude to monotonous cross-country travel, viewed from the stillness of a moving vehicle.