Speak ill
Creighton Baxter, Cristine Brache, Travis Boyer, Nick Fusaro, Adrienne Greenblatt, Emmett Palaima, Gitte Maria Möller, Ellen Pong
October 31st — November 24th, 2024
Press Release
Ask the flirtatious Gavin Butt, Silvia Federici the witch, or Balkan secret agent Julia Kristeva: gossip is valuable. Integral to cultural production, hearsay can be a corrosive or supportive force, depending on the words exchanged. The value of information and its dissemination holds alchemical potential.
There are some useful spells for thwarting gossip. Materials include candles, broken glass, twine, ice, ink, and the written word.
"Speak ill" includes artists Creighton Baxter, Travis Boyer, Cristine Brache, Nick Fusaro, Adrienne Greenblatt, Ellen Pong and Gitte Maria Möller. A listening area at the exhibition’s center houses a series of recorded programs that expand on examples of hearsay using artist-editioned Morningstar speakers by Emmett Palaima as a conduit. Programming includes artists Sophia Giovannitti, Erik Foss, Journey Streams, and more.
NICK FUSARO (b. 1989) is based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA in Sculpture from Hunter College in 2022 and his BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute in 2012. His sculptural practice combines humble materials, collections, and iteration to emphasize the effects of memory on lived experience. Fusaro also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2011 and is the founder of Three Four Three Four, an artist-run gallery in New York. He has shown at Parent Company Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Marwan (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Jupiter Woods (London, UK), Fisher Parrish (Brooklyn, NY), Strobe Gallery (New York, NY) and Long Story Short (New York, NY).
Gitte Maria Möller (b. 1991, Cape Town, South Africa) is a painter, multi-disciplinary artist and pre-school teacher. She graduated with a BAFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2015, where she received the Judy Steinberg Painting Prize for her graduate show. She has exhibited locally in South Africa, as a well as internationally across Europe, the UK and the United States. She lives and works between Cape Town and New York City. Gitte uses a range of different mediums and painterly devices to explore the symbolic and numinous possibilities of picture-making. Drawing from dream symbology, early video games and the natural and urban landscape, Gitte’s work holds a complex array of signs, symbols, and archetypes in suspension. Through her work Gitte strives to form a union between her inner and outer reality, creating a personalized arena for devotion in her pictures. In this intricate visual space, she offers a distracted meditation on a world interpolated by empathy and apathy, freedom and vulnerability, and the struggle between g00d and 3vil.
INSTALLATION
WORKS
Travis Boyer
Suggestion Diabolique, 2024
40 5/8" x 28 5/8"Dye, Velvet
Cristine Brache
Gaslight (after Remedios Varo, Papillar Estelar, 1958), 2020
9.5" x 25.5" x 19.5"Resin, Steel, LEDs
Creighton Baxter
Closing the Loop, 2024
Dimensions VariableInk, graphite, risograph, acrylic, letraset on Paper
Emmett Palaima
Morningstar, 2024
10" DiameterNick Fusaro
Witches’ Brew, 2023
Dimensions VariableGlazed Ceramic
Adrienne Greenblatt
And I’ll Remember You From The Thorns In My Palm And The Blood On My Knees, Charm 1: Heretic’s Fork, 2024
Glass
Adrienne Greenblatt
And I’ll Remember You From The Thorns In My Palm And The Blood On My Knees, Charm 2: Shepherd’s Collar, 2024
Glass
Adrienne Greenblatt
And I’ll Remember You From The Thorns In My Palm And The Blood On My Knees, Charm 3: Cockcage, 2024
Glass
Adrienne Greenblatt
And I’ll Remember You From The Thorns In My Palm And The Blood On My Knees, Charm 4: Spider Gag, 2024
Glass
Ellen Pong
C01, 2024
15” x 15.75” x 29.5”Maple, custom-glazed stoneware
Ellen Pong
C02, 2024
15” x 15.75” x 29.5”Maple, custom-glazed stoneware
Ellen Pong
T01, 2024
36” x 27.5”Maple, custom-glazed stoneware
Gitte Maria Möller
Community Garden (Chinatown) , 2023
30" x 48"Oil on Canvas
Gitte Maria Möller
Untitled ( Charm ), 2024
3.5" x 12.5"Digital Print on Perspex with Mixed Media
Gitte Maria Möller
Untitled ( Charm ), 2024
3" x 12.5"Digital Print on Perspex with Mixed Media
Gitte Maria Möller
Untitled ( Charm ), 2024
3.5" x 12.5"Digital Print on Perspex with Mixed Media
Gitte Maria Möller
Untitled ( Charm ), 2024
3.5" x 12"Digital Print on Perspex with Mixed Media
Gitte Maria Möller
Untitled ( Charm ), 2024
3.5" x 15.5"Digital Print on Perspex with Mixed Media
Gitte Maria Möller
Untitled ( Charm ), 2024
3.5" x 13.5"Digital Print on Perspex with Mixed Media
Gitte Maria Möller
Untitled ( Charm ), 2024
3.5" x 12"Digital Print on Perspex with Mixed Media
Gitte Maria Möller
Untitled ( Charm ), 2024
3.5" x 11"Digital Print on Perspex with Mixed Media
Gitte Maria Möller
Untitled ( Charm ), 2024
4" x 10"Digital Print on Perspex with Mixed Media