Watery, Domestic
December 15 - February 9, 2025
December 15 - February 9, 2025
Basket Books & Art is pleased to present Watery, Domestic, a group show featuring seven artists presently working in Central Texas and its Gulf Coast region. Watery, Domestic is on view December 14, 2024 to February 2, 2025 with an opening reception on Saturday, December 14th from 4-6pm during which Seneca Garcia will perform a short set of songs.
The title, borrowed from a 90’s era indie rock album whose first track is called “Texas Never Whispers,” is re-deployed to describe the all-pervasive atmospheric condition of Houston: ever humid, damp even when dry, sprawling mass amidst permanent gurgling din. Presenting differing individual concerns within the various practices of the artists here gathered, the shared and inescapable environmental state serves as a rivulet trickling through the work.
The exhibition brings together seven artists: Isela Aguirre collages material that masquerades as painting into forms that defy strictures of support; larí garcía’s sculptures evoke records of breath and the body as a present absence; Seneca Garcia uses language and gesture to rescue the poetic from the banal; Jade Mellor employs photography to document space and light and then enlists painting’s luminescent capabilities to present her findings; Abinadi Meza’s brilliantly colored paintings serve as support for the film-in-production and as a direct record of time and touch; Jamie Sterling Pitt’s water table made out of reclaimed materials celebrates the multiplicity of language and serves as an interactive way-station for making drawings and watercolors on site; William Warden uses a form of bricolage to construct his self-cannibalizing paintings.
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Images: Alex Barber