Martha Mysko
In Circulation
August 19 - September 23
"In Circulation" represents Martha Mysko’s exploration of material culture, using secondhand and discounted home goods alongside display and art historical strategies. The exhibition revolves around a blend of spontaneity and organized arrangement.
The "Display Mechanisms" series in the front room engages with chance and ready-made concepts. The images and objects refer to end-cap displays commonly seen in thrift stores. The structured arrangements move towards innovation through replicating displayed objects, mark-making, and utilizing both digital and physical processes.
In the back room, color-saturated shadow-boxes delve deeper into material and process-based abstraction. Drawing from a palette influenced by color trend predictions and online imagery, Mysko uses sourced objects to add complexity to her planned color schemes, while emphasizing texture and gesture. The pieces are richly layered with paint, scanned photographs, and digital painting programs, achieving simultaneous compression and expansion.
A hanging installation titled "Grainstacks At Home" acts as a visual anchor for the exhibition. It becomes a stage, inviting viewers to contemplate the past and present. Enhanced by highly saturated scans of Monet's Grainstacks taken from the pages of "Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings," this work goes beyond traditional painting by functioning as a display, showcasing its potential and limitations. It encourages viewers to consider their interaction with aesthetic information.