Artists: Jim Buchman, LaKela Brown, Josef Bull, Renee Delosh, Anne Eastman, Derek Fordjour, Corinne Jones, Brad Kahlhamer, Seth Kelly, Robbie McDonald, Terri Phillips, and Mariah Robertson.
Exhibition title: Island States
Venue: Tops Gallery, Memphis, US
Date: April 23 – June 11, 2016
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Tops Gallery
Tops Gallery welcomes you to Island States, a group show of free-standing sculpture curated by Corinne Jones. Island States is conceived as a constellation of independent bodies that have a distinct presence of “standing”, each one an embodiment and symbol of autonomy. The operative gesture of “standing up” or “standing for” is a present-day measure of asserting one’s beliefs. While the works apply diverse materials to disparate ends, they share a common attribute, an emblematic economy which acts on the viewer’s recognition of the signs in each form. Each sculpture is its own autonomous ‘island’ and symbolic ‘flag’. Taken together, the configuration of forms represents a loose federation of selfdetermined states of being.
The contributing artists that make up Island States are: Jim Buchman, LaKela Brown, Josef Bull, Renee Delosh, Anne Eastman, Derek Fordjour, Corinne Jones, Brad Kahlhamer, Seth Kelly, Robbie McDonald, Terri Phillips, and Mariah Robertson.
