A Walk Through a Blue Door
a virtual exploration of the exhibition at Basin Gallery
“A Blue Door in Mud Season,” a symbiosis of works by Cecil Howell, Krista Dragomer, and Erin Treacy, opened at Basin Gallery in Red Hook, Brooklyn on April 13, and will be on view through May 21.
The show includes a wide variety of works that I have made over more than a decade, including several never-before-exhibited works from the many branches of my practice.
For those of you who can’t attend the show, I have created a virtual exhibition with images and an audio guide, which includes some of my sound work as well, which you can access through this portal in a portal in a portal.
In the windows is an installation of works by all three artists. My contributions include a deconstructed rag rug sculpture I had made as an undergraduate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the early 2000’s, along with fabric animal sculptures, several of which I made during the March 2020 lockdown.
In one section of the gallery, I put together several works that I created in conversation with Beatrice Marovich in 2011-2014. We were exploring the graphic novel genre (at that time I was working in a shared studio of comix artists, headed by Dean Haspiel), experimenting with co-creating speculative fiction pieces in image and text.
Despite our mutual excitement for this project, we both got busy with other work and those ideas became compost for the many other works we have made, individually and collaboratively, since then. Several of those artworks are now included in Beatrice’s book Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying, published in February of this year by Columbia University Press (follow this link for an interview between Beatrice and I on the Columbia University Press blog).
For this exhibition, I compiled and re-edited the original series of speculative graphic fiction works into an online piece to accompany the artworks on the wall.
