EXHIBITION STATEMENT
Transmutations (the inbetweenness of things), gathers the work of five artists who explore the subtle and intangible through a diverse range of mediums and methodologies. The works are concerned with expanding the dimension of their sources through translation and reorganization. Bringing to light the physical or natural characteristics of an object to an entity, as well as their structural relationships to memory and language, the works illustrate how transmutation goes beyond alchemy. They embody the necessity of resisting the unceasing procession of time.
Photos by Mike Jensen
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Trevor King (b.1988, Butler, PA) lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Bronx Museum of the Arts, Sculpture Space NYC, and Emmanuel Barbault Gallery (New York, NY). King has been a Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and an artist-in- residence at MASS MoCA, Touchstone Center for Crafts (Farmington, PA), Ox- Bow School of Art, Haystack Mountain School (Deer Isle, ME), Sculpture Space NYC, Greenwich House Pottery (New York, NY), and The Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, GA). He received a BFA from Slippery Rock University in 2011 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. King received an MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2015
Erika Shiba is a Japanese printmaker born and raised in Hong Kong; she received her BFA in 2018 from Parsons School of Design in New York for Illustration and Printmaking and received her MFA in Printmaking at Illinois State University in 2021. She has been included in group shows at Blanc Gallery (Quezon City, Philippines), Artlink Contemporary Gallery (Fort Wayne, IN), and the International Print Center of New York.
Aaron Artrip is an American Musician and Artist focusing on the relationship between what we see and hear. Balancing between these areas, he searches through discarded, often forgotten analog, and digital hardware systems to find musical forms of rhythm, pitch, and pattern. Aaron’s work takes many forms including drawings, prints, sound recordings, installations and performances. In his free time, he enjoys laying down some sick nasty beats with a drum machine, creating new sounds with his synthesizers, or teaching a workshop.
Malcom Sutherland is a director and animator living in Quebec. His background is in cabinet making and traditional print-making. Malcom has a degree in Film from Concordia University. Over the past 15 years he’s directed and animated short films, feature films, TV series, web commercials, and music videos. Clients have included companies like Adidas, Red Bull, Vans Shoes, Def Jam Records, Caterpillar, Air Canada, Nelvana, Teletoon, Adult Swim, Danone, Telus, Naturel Lait, the National Film Board of Canada, and many more.
Kole Nichols (b.1998) is a multi-disciplinary artist from Florence, Alabama. Within their work, Nichols utilizes the languages of printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and painting as an expanded approach to art-making in order to navigate diverse conceptual interests. Recent exhibitions in which they have been featured include the 44th Montgomery Art Guild Exhibition at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and the Red Clay Survey: 2020 Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art at the Huntsville Museum of Art.