Artifact as Memory Archive

Memories need a place to rest and a repository that can make them accessible and tangible beyond the person in whom they are located. For the works in this show, memory resides in objects, patterns, and gesture. Artifacts are the remnants of memories crafted to both receive and also to transmit experience. In sculpture, object installations, and paintings, we experience the spaces in which memories gather and are collected in deeply tactile ways through the artists' process of making. We the viewers find our own memory associations in the openness of these artworks. The memories that are transmuted also become artifacts that can be discovered and recovered. The objects become artifacts, akin to a vessel which holds the memory of the artists' original intention; The artists in this show collect artifacts to forge a new and ever-changing archive. Taken together, they invite us to see and follow not only the texture of the sweeping movements but also to assemble these experiences together.