November with Jade Hoyer: Week 1

Jade Hoyer is a Denver-based artist sharing studio updates throughout November as part of the SHE Digital Artist Residency Program.

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Week 1: November 7

Planning

Hello, world! I’m Jade Hoyer, Denver, Colorado-based artist and educator. My media include printmaking, installation, turf grass, and coffee cups. I’m excited to be a SHE digital resident for the month of November. I’ve enjoyed reading Bronwyn Wall’s updates, and I’m excited to be sharing a bit of my practice on this platform.

This month, I will be creating an installation in collaboration with Lissette Ramirez, an awesome artist who is also one of my students at Metropolitan State University of Denver. We’ve been invited to create an installation in the printshop there at the University of Louisville.

The space (currently) looks like this! The install will be on one of the side walls.

Print area in the new MFA building, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

For this project, we’ve been thinking about a few things:

I’m enjoying Shantell Martin’s exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. I so love her use of negative and positive space, and her use of text.

Shantell Martin exhibition, “Words and Lines,” at the Denver Art Museum

Lisette was inspired by a Denver-based artist, Scott Young, whose work is displayed at a local hotel. The sign depicts the caption “Wish you were here,” but the last letter flickers out periodically, changing the meaning of the piece.

The “Wish You Were Her(e)” sign at the Ramble Hotel by artist Scott Young. Image by Joshua Perez, provided by the Ramble Hotel to Denver Post

 We’ve also been reflecting on our own artistic practices. For an exhibition last year, I created a modified pop-up that shifts between two images, while on her end, Lisette created a series of drawings based on movement between locations. She would hold a pen walking between classes, or walking from her home to work, etc, to create lovely layered scribbles. We’ll be using these for the project! Our plan is to create a modular design for U of L that plays with the words, “Art” and “Know” while playing on negative and positive.   

November Digital Artist-in-Residence: Jade Hoyer

Southern Heat Exchange is pleased to introduce our second resident artist: Denver-based printmaker, book artist, social practitioner, and installation artist Jade Hoyer! She will be sharing one weekly update with us each Thursday as she prepares for an installation in Louisville, Kentucky. Welcome, Jade!

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Hoyer in collaboration with poet Katie Byrum, VAE Center in Raleigh, NC, 2016

Jade Hoyer’s work closely examines her Tuesday mornings. By this she reflects on her morning coffee but also her positionality in society and the greater impact of her daily actions. She works in an expanded print practice, combining printmaking with artist’s books, social practice, and community activism. She has exhibited nationally and internationally has been recognized by organizations such as the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She is based in Denver, Colorado, where she is an Assistant Professor of Art at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

October with Bronwyn Walls: Week 5

Bronwyn Walls is a New Orleans based artist sharing studio updates throughout October as part of the SHE Digital Artist Residency Program.

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Week 5: October 31

Painting & Drawing Scores

An offering for creatives.

A reminder to play.

Please share/ print/ distribute as you like. Adjust as needed. Enjoy!

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What I'm reading: Kokomo (poetry)

October with Bronwyn Walls: Week 4

Bronwyn Walls is a New Orleans based artist sharing studio updates throughout October as part of the SHE Digital Artist Residency Program.

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Week 4: October 24

falling on ur ass is good for u

I just painted "falling on ur ass is good for u" in wonky bubble letters on one of my paintings. This makes me happy.

I'm working on taking myself a little less seriously and playing more in the studio. I'm also working on getting better at falling.

Many artists will sympathize with the understanding that rejection is a much bigger part of being of artist than they ever originally imagined. I've had my share of rejections over the past few years and it can be difficult to get back up. It's cliché, but the truth is that falling is an unavoidable aspect of growth.

Two months ago, I introduced a new practice into my life - roller skating! (I'm obsessed). I didn't expect that roller skating would be such a wonderful teacher. My favorite roller skating moment so far is actually the first time that I fell. I bought all of the pads - wrist pads, elbow pads, and knee pads. For the first two days, I moved so slowly and carefully, rarely finding those moments of feeling free that skating is so full of. I didn't realize how much tension I was holding in my body around avoiding falling. I kind of thought "I can learn how to skate without falling at all, I'll just be really careful." Yeah, right.

So, the first time that I fell, I instinctively just started laughing out loud. I fell on my ass. I didn't break my arm or my hip. It actually didn't hurt at all. What a release! Once the fear of falling is put in its place, it gets easier and easier to play, dance, cruise, and take bigger risks.

I've wiped out a few times since then and some have hurt more than others (although, no major injuries yet, fingers crossed). But, another lesson I've also learned recently is that healing is a great teacher as well, maybe even the best one.

Here's to falling on my ass more.

What I'm looking at --- Charlie Pepper (tattoo artist)

October with Bronwyn Walls: Week 3

Bronwyn Walls is a New Orleans based artist sharing studio updates throughout October as part of the SHE Digital Artist Residency Program.

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Week 3: October 17

A Wake-Dreaming Continuum

I've been writing down my dreams for over five years. Sometimes I remember my dreams often, other times rarely. When I started working in abstraction, I noticed more and more often that images, ideas, and feelings from my dreams were making their way into my work. So, I started being more intentional about recording my dreams and I began to seek out more information about the phenomenon.

I stumbled into an essay by Ernest Hartmann called "The Psychology and Physiology of Dreaming: A New Synthesis," (it's a treasure trove!)

Here's what I've learned--

The cortex of the human brain is made up billions of neurons, connected through a net-like pattern. Information lives in the connections of neurons. When dreaming, the connections that are made are loose and broad, rather than focused and linear as in waking. Hartmann offers this wake-dreaming continuum, to explain the spectrum of mental functioning that exists between waking thought and dreaming:

Hartmann, E. (1999). The Psychology and Physiology of Dreaming: A New Synthesis. In Gamwell, L., ed., Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind. New York: State University of New York Press, p. 67.

As the continuum shows, dream thoughts are mostly visual, much less self conscious, and generally boundary-less. Hartmann says "dreams find a picture context for, or contextualize, the emotion or emotional concern."

Based on the wake-dreaming continuum, the psychological state of painting lies somewhere in between waking and dreaming. So, maybe painting is a way of connecting those two worlds that I inhabit.

This week I'm thinking about painting, like dreaming, as:

being caught up in the process

connecting ideas that are seemingly unconnected

activity across or outside of structured subsystems

finding pattern in unexpected places

emotional visualization 

What I'm looking at: Maruja Mallo

October with Bronwyn Walls: Week 2

Bronwyn Walls is a New Orleans based artist sharing studio updates throughout October as part of the SHE Digital Artist Residency Program.

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Week 2: October 10

Co-regulation in the Art Space

In psychology, co-regulation is defined as a "continuous unfolding of individual action that is susceptible to being continuously modified by the continuously changing actions of the partner". 

~!~Wow~!~ What a beautiful, simple yet complex idea.

(Continuous, continuous, continuous.) 

Using this definition, and applying it to the art space, I'm thinking about replacing the word "partner" with three different ideas: my artwork, the artwork that I interact with, and my art community. 

...With my artwork-

Maybe artwork does not necessarily take continuously changing actions. However, it does serve to reflect and dialogue with my mood, my thoughts, and the space that we inhabit together. 

Each time that I enter my studio, my completed works and works in progress say something new to me. And I work to react. Some ways that I may react include: moving a piece to a new place in the room, so it can catch the light a certain way; painting over a painting that I painted 4 months ago; pulling a small detail from an older piece and bringing it into new context. 

Co-regulation with personal artwork gets more complicated when the work moves out of the studio and becomes visible to others. I'm not even going to go there.

...With artwork that I interact with-

In this case, the continuously changing actions of the work are mostly driven by the context. For example, I may see a photograph on Instagram and compare my experience to the experiences of the past 30 images that I just scrolled past. Later, I may see the same piece, printed large scale and framed in a gallery. It's my work, then, to adjust my perception to the new context. 

Place matters, and so does background, information about the artist, personal memories, etc.

...With art community-

Co-regulating with the art community may be harder to define. 

Do I modify my actions according to the actions of the art community? It's inevitable to a certain degree. However, I think it's important to be directly conscious of how my work dialogues with the work of artist friends, other artists in my city or region, and the larger art world. It's important to me to be part of that dialogue, no matter how small my voice.

What I’m listening to: Relational Somatics with Lucién Demaris on Healing Justice (Podcast)

What I'm looking at: David Onri Anderson (Paintings)

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October with Bronwyn Walls: Week 1

Bronwyn Walls is a New Orleans based artist sharing studio updates throughout October as part of the SHE Digital Artist Residency Program.

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Week 1: October 3

There is a “hand” of bananas growing right outside of my studio window.

I’m painting over old canvas and thinking about self preservation. 

These past weeks I’ve been tuned in to young climate activists expressing deep anger about where we are and how we got here. I’m crying with them. Hope feels unjustified sometimes. 

As I assess the ways in which I move through and interact with the world, I think first about my creative practice. When challenges feel insurmountable, it can be too easy to disregard non-practical or non-solutions-based ways of living. But how can I ignore the persistent feeling that my practice is one of the most valuable movements to which I dedicate my time?

It’s not that my practice offers hope. What my practice offers is imaginative strength and deep connection to the physical world. How can I live without exercising consistent creative courage? How can I attempt to grow in any way? How can I approach crisis or trauma while being structurally separated from my body and my senses? I wish to rediscover the beauty and resilience of physical existence as often as possible.

Making art is an act of preserving spirit. 

Some intentions that I’m setting for myself over the course of my residency:

• To approach my materials with the reverence they deserve as finite resources. If I don’t know where a material comes from or how it’s made, learn. 

• To incorporate more recycled and found materials. 

• To center wonder and appreciation in process. 

What I’m reading: A Door in the Earth (Fiction) by Amy Waldman

What I’m listening to: Water Me Down by Vagabon

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Walls resurfaces a canvas in her New Orleans studio

October Digital Artist-in-Residence: Bronwyn Walls

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Bronwyn Walls is a New Orleans native who has both lost and rediscovered her home at the mouth of the Mississippi. In the 12 years she spent across the Sabine river, she attended the University of Texas and began to illustrate and paint in the idiosyncratic Austin arts scene. Since returning to New Orleans in 2017, she has continued to stay curious and inventive, exploring stories woven in memory, painting, movement, fabric and objects. She occupies a studio at Aquarium in the Bywater, which hosted her first solo exhibition in September 2019. Her work has been featured in Femaissance and the Lucky Art fair. You can sometimes find her on roller skates, at dusk, in Crescent Park.

Beginning next Thursday, October 3rd, Walls will share weekly updates from her studio with us at SHE.

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Walls’s studio at Aquarium Gallery in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans

Walls’s studio at Aquarium Gallery in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans

SHE Digital Residency begins October 2019!

DIGITAL ⇔ RESIDENCY SERIES

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What does that mean?

Southern Heat Exchange is opening its digital doors!

We are excited to announce a monthly artist-in-residence series at www.southernheatexchange.com.

Stop by each Thursday afternoon for notes and images from our guests’ studios.

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Summer Process Exchange Open Call

SHE PROCESS ⇔ EXCHANGE

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This is not a statement or application.

This is for us.

This is a place to share sparks from our private creation spaces.

Format:

One page of writing, open format

1-3 images (or other media) of relevant work for reference

Prompt:

What is happening for you at this moment in the studio?

Results:

Written pieces will be collected into a single PDF that will be emailed to all involved

If there is further interest, we’ll consider making it regular

Details:

Email your content to sheatexchange (at) gmail.com by July 15th, 2019 

Indicate if you would like your name, artist website, and/or contact info included in the email 

If media is large or time-based, please host it somewhere and provide a link

Process Exchange will be emailed on or before July 29th, 2019

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AS WE MOVE FURTHER FROM EACH OTHER IN SPACE/TIME DIMENSIONS I FEEL YOUR ANGER INSIDE ME AND AM GRATEFUL FOR THE PROXIMITY: Rosalie Smith

Rosalie is a New Orleans-based multidisciplinary artist. Her practice centers on discovering emotionally and metaphorically potent materials and re-contextualizing them as commentary on contemporary human ills.

Lean In // Textures of a Female Landscape : Claire Beauchamp

“‘Lean In’ contemplates the spirit of the feminine in our changing landscapes. Whether that is the shifting political climate, the landscape of mental and emotional health, or our confused involvement with the borders and boundaries that cut through our lands.”

Installation view of Lean In // Textures of a Female Landscape by Claire Beauchamp

“I grew up in a family of middle-American farmers, our connection with the land was a physical one- one I can feel in my own body despite its labeled frailty. The men in my family may hold the deeds to our land, own the system that divided the land in the first place, but women hemmed its edges, recorded its stories, wove the color into its fields. As I stretch into my new role as a New Orleanian, I hope to repurpose this history, but I also find myself unsettled by the strings that tie me to it.”

The Listening Body: Curated by Margaret Parsons and April Bachtel

Curated by April Bachtel & Margaret Parsons

Participating Artists:

Eleanor Aldrich
Elliot Jerome Brown Jr.
Wesley Chavis
Natori Green
Gregory Hatch
Katarina Riesing
Jing Qin

Teen Angst (or Cielito Lindo) by Eleanor Aldrich

The Listening Body encourages a physical understanding of the world. Listening in this way – from the gut, from the feet, toes, and lungs – connects us to the present moment. This act, returning to one’s body, eludes the signals broadcast to us by the analytics and algorithms of a commodity-centered culture. A listening body is one brave enough to shake and shed off the external pressures that ask us to commodify ourselves. These figurative works are attuned to the resonance of a listening body: a body that mourns, celebrates, loves, tickles, and rests.

Ephemeral Voice: A Collection of Objects that Guide Us

Today’s modern world is not a slow one. At any given moment, we are inundated with multiple sensory distractions and social expectations. Whether conscious or not, we each have rituals that help us re-center. This is an experimental examination of the objects that help us be ourselves.

Curated by Regina Parkinson & Emily Timmerman
Hosted by Southern Heat Exchange (formerly Book Club Gallery)

Featuring Art & Objects from Potter DeBella, Lena Kolb, Taylor Ott, Asher Reisman, Rosalie Smith, Daniel Stein, and Vincente Weber.

A Tussle with the Genius Loci: Catherine Nelson

Catherine Nelson explores the intersection of her research into improvisation, drawing, fabrication and her own connection to the Louisiana landscape in an immersive installation at Book Club Gallery this June titled “A Tussle with the Genius Loci”. The exhibition will also host a performance by Known Mass dance company titled “Secret Beach”, scored by Ann Glaviano and co-choreographed by Ann Glaviano, Rebecca Allen and Dewuan Frances in contact with sculptures and drawings by Nelson in the Art Egg atrium at sunset.

Nelson’s installation, composed with tea-dyed collagraph prints, steel collage sculptures, found objects, drawings on glass, papier mache, surface prints from the bayou, and direct wall drawing

Dewuan Frances and Rebecca Allen perform “Secret Beach,” an improvised performance in space with Nelson’s sculptures

Rebecca Allen, Dewuan Frances, and Ann Glaviano in contact during their improvised performance of “Secret Beach.” Nelson’s objects litter the ground around them.

Works of Paper: Kate Skakel

Kate Skakel, a New Orleans based artist and fabricator, explores sculptural approaches to paper through cuts and physical monotypes in this solo exhibition.

Skakel graduated in May 2016 from the University of Vermont with a degree in Studio Art, and spent the following fall at Yestermorrow Design and Build School studying fine furniture making and woodworking. She currently builds furniture professionally. In her visual art, Skakel works both three dimensionally, utilizing metal and wood, as well as two dimensionally, making prints and photographs.

Mother Time: April Bachtel

Statement written by Bachtel for “Mother Time”

Held and Unraveled: Margaret Parsons

Parsons’ large-scale one-line work explores the body through the primary experience of drawing as well as through figurative forms.