May 21 - July 10, 2021
From Kirk Hopper Fine Art:
“We are beginning to emerge from what is perhaps the most introspective period in American history. After a year of paralyzing pandemic, intense systemic racism, environmental calamities and economic shortfalls, all of us feel unmoored by gravitational forces. Maybe it’s time to go outside, look up at the night sky and revel in a more superior and complex creativity. At its best, that world taps into the wonder that can come from new visions and realms.
As Charles Mary Kubricht sees it, the cosmos presents a densely interwoven series of narrative entanglements that extend across time, alternate universes and at least several multiple realities. Kubricht has obviously never been to outer space, but she has spent many years imagining it, tracking it, with the help of astrophysicists and intergalactic archaeologists at McDonald Observatory near her studio in Marfa, Texas. Kubricht’s ability to dream up detailed worlds has served her in various contexts about that particular place: its geology, weather patterns, migrations and lost histories. To envision a location, and linking of geographic points, it helps to identify known analogues. As a child, Kubricht hiked and camped in the wilderness. Nature provided a feeling of comfort that was missing from the confines of home. She has continued to walk the landscape, while making connections between abstract properties of time, distance, speed and perception.
True to its title, “I am a satellite I’m out of control –Queen,” Kubricht’s multilayered, multidimensional installation of recent works at Kirk Hopper Fine Art, aims to connect the Earth to the Universe and all of the spaces in between. Entering the gallery is to be immersed in an energy field. The immediacy of her works acts upon our nervous systems, triggering responses that are various, questioning and transcendentally, electrically alive.
“I am a satellite I’m out of Control –Queen” becomes a kind of metaphoric space opera, propelling us across a cosmos that changes and transforms us in the very instant of contact. The installation crosses conventional boundaries of art and science. It is about many things: worlds within worlds, the prospect of space travel and exoplanets, and our constant state of flux. Each series – Future Tense, South of Zenith, Almost Human/Almost Earth, The Red Planet, Visuality, Astronauts, Space Ships, Signals – presents a taut balance of inventive power and structural rigor, a back and forth play of alternating perceptions between elements of geometry and a new mythology. That lyrical sensibility and instinctive visual experience combine to summon the most anarchic of forces – the life force itself.
Kubricht’s galaxies offer a respite and reminder of how small and fleeting our own troubles are in the grandest scheme. Her paintings, drawings and photographs surround us with a vortex of magnetic fields that stream gas and energy across space at nearly the speed of light. She invites us to go along on the wild ride. “I am a satellite I’m out of control –Queen” is an epic poem to cosmic curiosities.
Charles Mary Kubricht, an artist living in New York City and Marfa, has been exhibiting her work in the US and abroad for three decades. She has designed stage sets for operas such as DER PROTAGONIST (2014) and THE ENCHANTED TREE (2013) performed by the Fire Island Opera Festival, HUFFINGTON POST, COOL HUNTING. In 2010, she created a permanent public art installation for Rice University, PARAMUSEUM: ENVIRONMENTAL EXIGENCIES, and was awarded a residency at YADDO. Her work is included in the book, DAZZLE: Disguise and Disruption in War and Art by James Taylor, 2016, and featured in BOMB Magazine (April 1, 2009) and ELLE DÉCOR: ITALY (2017). A few of her public and corporate collections include Rice University, Houston, TX; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX; The University of Houston, Houston, TX; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The El Paso Museum, El Paso, TX; BP Exploration, Inc., Houston, TX; Northern Trust Bank, Dallas, TX; United States District Court, Private Chambers of the Honorable Vanessa Gilmore, Houston, TX; Hillwood Properties, Ft. Worth, TX.”
Reception: May 21, 2021 | 6–8 pm
Panel: June 26, 2021 | 4–6 pm
UFOs seen ETs heard
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