November 12 - 28, 2022
From G Contemporary Art:
“Contemplating one’s personal life and the current socio-political situation, The Weight of Things, examines family possessions that contain sweet memories and the burdensome weight of responsibility, as well as the incessant struggle for women to maintain autonomy over their own bodies, the degradation of the environment due to climate change, the measurement of a life lived, and memento mori images to remind us of our mortality and the immortality of plastic.
We share the cyclical nature of human experience and memory — the emotional and the intellectual to provide a poetically whole expression of human life. Dualities persist. Austerity and excess, minimalism and obsession, reason and passion, physicality and consciousness interconnect to create the mysterious equilibrium of existence.
Existing simultaneously is the state of being between comparative perspectives. The transition of conversion between waning light and waxing darkness is a metaphor for the process of transformation. Dawn and dusk, the blue hour, reference a moment of transitional beauty, the time and space in which anything can happen. The unknown invokes wonderment. My desire is to create visual poetry that references this moment of transience.
The Barnacle Series casts objects that reference significant moments in our lives, providing one a sense of immortality. A can of buttons may be as valuable as a diamond, without monetary hierarchy. The possessions carry the weight of lineage and baggage of memories. Acting as a memento mori, the art is a reminder of the transience and temporality of life.
Artist Biography
Bedgood creates multi-media art that reflects her questioning of the duality of human nature, and the transitional moments between. She has a BFA: painting/art history, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and MFA: U-Texas-Austin, mixed media sculpture. Residencies: Blue Star Contemporary Kunstler Haus Bethanien International Studio Residency-Berlin 2023, Rockefeller Foundation Center-Bellagio Italy, Visiting Artist American Academy-Rome-Italy, MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Awards: New Forms Regional Initiatives Grant/ Rockefeller-Andy Warhol Foundation-NEA, MAAA-NEA Award Sculpture, Art Matters-NYC.
Exhibitions include the Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, ArtScan Rudolf Blume Gallery-Houston, Austin Museum of Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, Women & Their Work-Austin, Lawndale Art Center, Blue Star Contemporary. Reviews: New York Times, The New Art Examiner, High Performance, Sculpture, ArtLies, Houston Chronicle, CNN online, NPR.
Bedgood is a Professor, Adjunct Faculty, Austin Community College, U-Texas Austin, Trinity University, Texas State University San Marcos, Visiting Artist U-Tennessee-Knoxville. She lives-works in San Antonio, Texas.”
Reception: November 12, 2022 | 6–8 pm
223 East 11th Street
Houston, 77008 Texas
713-869-4770
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