This online release explores the aftermath of stylistic, material, and relational interfaces; convergences that transform matter and meaning upon the point of contact.
The participating artists present varied forms of encounters as formative sites of unfolding. Raffy Ugaddan pursues this in artistic terms. The artist’s works in this collection mark some of his recent experimentations with color; initial attempts to meld earth and bright tones become illustrative of novel forms arising from new stylistic encounters.
Denver Garza extends this artistic slant, this time with a turn to process instead. His series of paper collage works adopts a self-referential approach to the notion of encounter as, in the artist’s words, the act of layering conjures a “dynamic and layered representation of human interaction.”
France Daffon expands the inquiry through a relational approach. She takes her cue from the ‘alternative plot’ storytelling structure to challenge the primacy of connections, foregrounding desolation as the stimulus of the familial reframings pursued by her works instead.
Together, these works navigate the tenuous spaces where form and relation unravel. In these points of (dis)connection, matter morphs into flux and meaning emerges as an open question—contingent, shifting, and forever in motion.