Hold Me Close, I’m Re-membering How it Goes
Eli Liebman & Lynsey Robertson
July 5 - July 31
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
The works of Hold Me Close spring from the desire to question an unthinkable and unknowable world and self. The presented work - a body of quilts, a collaborative “newspaper,” and a few ceramic sculptures - embraces a wide range of disparate parts into familiar and quotidian containers. The gentle fabric whispers, clay remembers gesture and gaze, and Nerve Meter gathers a chorus to tell differently the maladies and ecstasies of today. Visual motifs proliferate to play within and against given ways of being. These paths appear at once all too familiar while still strange, enticing yet insidiously alienating. Suppose it went a little differently.
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Eli likes to question why we are conscripted to live such canalized lives. In an effort to breach these
artificial banks, Eli spends time learning how to do things and then likes to learn how to do other things.
Eli works in whichever media make sense for communicating a concept/emotion, yet with particular biases for the tactile ones often with utilitarian histories (namely clay, fabric, printmaking, drawing, and wood).
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Lynsey is an artist working in sculpture, print and sound to explore performance and ritual in the service of re-enchanting matter. They often work with the multiple in media such as cyanotype or clay, to practice devotional attention to matter and sculptural re-interpretation of myth. Lynsey lives and works in Los Angeles.