HARD FEELINGS // 4:00pm-7:00pm

Friday, September 13, 4:00pm-7:00pm

Evening Star Studio Gallery

Evening Star Studio Gallery - 11 Monitor Street Jersey City, NJ

Lauren Skelly Bailey, Candy colored me time, 2023 Doris Cacoilo, Weaving, 2024

HARD FEELINGS

September 13 - October 26

Opening reception as part of JCFridays: Friday, September 13th 4-7pm

Artist talk and closing reception: Saturday, October 26, 1-4pm

Lauren Skelly Bailey

Milcah Bassel

Doris Cacoilo

Beth DiCara

Stacey As Pritchard

Jan Kathleen Reyes

Judi Tavill

Evening Star Studio presents the exhibition, HARD FEELINGS, showcasing ceramic works by seven artists exploring the depiction of surface, texture and feeling both tactile and emotional.

The sculptures in the exhibition explore both figurative and abstract interpretations of feelings. The sculptures play with concepts and expectations of hardness and softness in material and in meaning. Hard surfaces seem to depict soft textures and objects with jagged surface treatments seem to ooze and replicate candy sweetness and chewy familiarity. Soft yarn loops made of hardened stoneware and playgrounds made of paper and clay invite the viewer into a guessing game of bait and switch. Turning expectations of feelings upside down, the sculptures also speak to the emotions of this moment as we roller coaster between joy and dread, gratitude and longing, ease and turmoil. HARD FEELINGS invites the viewer to ask questions of our feelings and to see the perspectives and turns that feeling can take in relationship to expectations, experience and each other.

Gallery hours daily 8am-1pm. Contact Beth DiCara ahead of your visit at 201-388-7323 to confirm.

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