Self as Subject

When one turns around to face oneself, there exists a confrontation with identity. This can be comforting, revealing, but is more than likely always perplexing. It is a curious thing to be a person, an object that exists within a context that is sometimes chosen and sometimes not. While using the self as subject, the artists in this exhibition position themselves in a created context. This opens up the mysteriousness of identity as it relates to various themes of perception, fancy, or illusion. It is important that we do not think of these works only as self-portraits. These works are not representations of the artists situated within the specifics of chronology or facts. They are, rather, presentations of the artists embedded in a fantasy, an abstraction, an unfamiliar history. If we liken the self-portrait to an autobiography, we should liken the works in this exhibition to a memoir, a realized effort to assemble a puzzle in the light of a journey. Self as Subject is a collection of explorations through impossibility that lead us to a place where we see and feel a harmony between vulnerability and comfortability. -Ashley Jonas

Gianelle Gelpi
Jenna Maurice
Clarissa Peppers 
and Joanna Powell

Exhibit ran May 16th-30th, 2015