Keri Straka & tim macdonald
Keri Straka and Tim McDonald: Internal Blooming and the Ancient Future
November 15 - December 10, 2021
Mazmanian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of artwork by Keri Straka and Tim McDonald. The sculptures by Straka contemplate, as she puts it, “how internal spaces within the body ‘speak’ through the language of sensation and subtle activity.” McDonald describes his drawings entitled stackshrinesnowswamps or sacralizing the ancient future as “springing from the intersection of wildness and culture.” Seen together, the exhibition poses questions about the effect that close observation can have on our bodily and environmental realities, histories and imaginations.
Installation views of "Internal Blooming and Ancient Future"
Tim McDonald, “ancient future/song of the swamp” and three details, carbon pencil on rice paper, 2021
Keri Straka, “Medusa Viscera,” stoneware, nylon fabric, polyfill, 2021
Keri Straka, “Pray Animal,” nylon fabric, polyfill, thread, dried thistle, pink enamel paint, stoneware, 2021
Keri Straka, “Devotional Recession: implement” (left) and “Devotional Recession: repose” (right), porcelain, stoneware, nylon fabric, polyfill, brass wire, hair, 2021
Keri Straka, “Cling,” nylon fabric, polyfill, thread, stoneware, 2021
Keri Straka, “Internal Blooming,” stoneware, porcelain, nylon fabric, thread, polyfill, 2021
Tim McDonald, “homage to the gurus,” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “ecstatic stack/ekstatic,” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “altared stack,” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “precarious construction/whiteness,” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “structure for healing a sick friend (for Neil),” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “so much depends,” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “oracle/slight return,” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “no boat's gonna row,” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “thatz some hip drum shit/still here,” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “ancient (to the) future,” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “3 on 3 (for the poet Natalie Diaz),” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
Tim McDonald, “if you go down in the flood...,” carbon pencil on paper, 2021
For more information about the artists visit Tim McDonald and Keri Straka’s websites.