1275 Minnesota St /
Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Sometimes Things Come Together: Kelly Carámbula, Tiffanie Turner & Paul Wackers
Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Sometimes Things Come Together, a group show with Kelly Carámbula, Tiffanie Turner and Paul Wackers.
The idea that Sometimes Things Come Together is about science as much as it is about art. Carámbula, Turner and Wackers share a love of combinations and invention in their very different mediums. Playfulness and a shrewd process of editing is integral to these artists' work.
Carámbula creates individually made “tiles”, texturing and glazing them various colors, and then intuitively assembles them into ceramic collages. Turner works with paper petals, colored paints, and various scales and angles creating dynamic paper sculptures of flowers. Wackers draws from a variety of remembered and invented forms to create paintings of curiosity cabinets. HIs arrangement and juxtaposition of color, various tempos and rhythms make the paintings almost read as text.
Scientific research and art-making share a pursuit of the new, of singular ideas, unique elaborations on the shoulders of other thinkers and makers. The new mRNA vaccines will be the the first to be widely used to teach our bodies how to fight Covid-19 by prompting our cells to produce a piece of the ‘spike protein’ that is unique to SARS-CoV-2, rather than by using weakened or inactived viruses, to induce an effective immune response.
Artists, like scientific researchers, spend many years finding their voices, learning and taking from others, and molding previous observations and experiences into their unique voices. Not all scientists succeed and not all artists do either. It is when we interpret the data presented with a new lens that breakthroughs happen. Progress is necessarily a creative endeavor. This show is a celebration of when seeing anew does work, when the efforts pay off and something profound happens, be it a scientific breakthrough or a culmination of many hours in the studio.
Onwards and upwards. Sometimes things come together.