Terrarium Exhibition panel discussion featuring Sibley Barlow, Lindsy Davis, Kayo Shido, and Sarah Valeri about memory/intuition, sensory experiences stored in the subconscious, environments familiar and strange, and the act of finding.
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Sibley Barlow explores ideas surrounding time, identity, labor, and repetition particularly as they relate to the body, as well as intersections between civilization and the natural environment. Their work privileges process and seeks to consolidate performance with the object. Sibley works across mediums and crafts, grouping work as widely varied individual projects. The expansive subject matter Sibley explores is unified by repetition: a serial of paintings, or a single work built on hundreds of smaller pieces. They work primarily in painting, drawing, and installation. Sibley was born in Atlanta, Georgia and received their BFA from Ball State University. They currently live and work in Mamaroneck, New York.
Lindsy Davis makes large-scale paintings and sculptures that challenge the viewers’ perception of experience through Gestaltism. Gestaltism is a psychological theory postulating that the individual pieces of the visual puzzle of our reality have their own connotations, but together with all the other pieces make up what we consume and how we dictate meaning from our reality. By making works that are both on and off the wall she creates a composition that moves as you move through it. The individual works have subtleties that can only be experienced through the natural and almost dogmatic urge we have to walk through the space, but in doing so it changes how you perceive the space and the works within it. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University. She was raised adjacent to New York and currently lives in Nashville Tennessee.
Kayo Shido is fascinated with self-expression through art, she focuses on landscape-inspired abstract mixed media pieces heavily combined with drawing on surface called Mylar. Her bold but elegant use of color creates compositions that are intuitive, translucent and complex. With strong interest in Carl Jung's psychology, she takes references from nature, and memories perceived and stored in unconscious, extracts and transforms them in abstract form. She expands her paintings into murals, 3D objects and installations. She was born in Hyogo, Japan, works and lives in New York.
Within the non-gravitational fields of color and light of painting, Sarah Valeri explores temporal forms and landscapes in states of change. Elements and beings in her imagery try to find more adaptable forms of strength or power: regeneration, evolution, brightness, vitality. Sarah has exhibited internationally and throughout the metropolitan area in curated and independent exhibitions. She also works as an art therapist in Brooklyn, NY.
