Artist Talk with Taylor Davis & Jessica Jackson Hutchins on Sunday

Artists Exchange: Taylor Davis and Jessica Jackson Hutchins

Sunday, September 21 · 2 pm to 3:30 pm

Member · FREE
Non-member (with paid admission to museum) · FREE
register online

Join an engaging dialogue between two artists who are currently presenting their work at the Museum.  Hutchins and Davis, who live on opposite coasts, first met at The Aldrich in April for the opening of their exhibitions and the launch of the Museum's 50th Anniversary. Although they approach art making in very different ways, they share common interests and inspirations, and through this gallery conversation visitors will gain insights into the complexities and revelations of the artists' creative process.

Taken from a short story by author William Gass, the title of Taylor Davis’s exhibition, If you steal a horse, and let him go, he'll take you to the barn you stole him from, points to the circular sense of movement that is inherent in both the conceptual and physical aspects of her work. Davis’s deep interest in sculpture is based in the way that a viewer’s orientation can be influenced by the perception of both form and language in space, and how this experience is an analogy to the ongoing need to constantly orient ourselves in relationship to the world.

Unicorn presents eight works by Jessica Jackson Hutchins, spanning video, sculpture, collage and monoprints, and a new large-scale sculpture. Hutchins makes use of the things around her—worn clothing, tattered chairs, nicked tables, stained sofas—inserting hand-molded ceramic objects to craft works that make poetry from the mundane and unite the corporeal with the abstract, the relatable with the enigmatic. She shows us that an artist is unmistakably human, and that creative expression is fed by human experience, confronting us with a pregnant visual language that shoots us up into the star-crossed cosmos and grounds us in the depths of the dark earth—all at the same time.

For more information, please contact Tracy Moore at tmoore@aldrichart.org

Major support for Museum operations has been provided by members of The Aldrich Board of Trustees and by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.