April 5 - May 31, 2025
From TIN Dallas:
“Heavy Hands, Heavy Lands investigates the shifting boundaries between the manmade and the “natural.” Heavy are the hands that move the land, heavy is the land that forms the man. Using materials like glass, metal, wood, and stone, the exhibit drifts through themes of introspection, ferality, and transformation.
Markum’s altars and reliquaries reimagine everyday ecology, commemorating creatures like cicadas, birds, and deer to weave speculative mythologies. Scogin’s sculptures merge distorted human forms with organic materials, forming eerie, hybrid beings. Their approaches combine into a collaborative Wunderkammer, ebbing from human introspection into the splendor of ferality through creatures within and around us.
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Liz Markum is a queer artist based in Texas whose work reexamines the remnants of the local natural world through a lens of curiosity and reverence. Using materials and processes such as cast glass, cast metal, print media, woodworking, and metalworking, they create sculptures that serve as reliquaries of ecology. They received their BFA in Sculpture at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2021 and their MFA in Sculpture at the University of North Texas in May of 2024. They are currently an art educator and bronze art foundry assistant.
Michael Scogin is an interdisciplinary artist based in Dallas, Texas. His work often focuses on the overlooked, hidden, or gradual. Michael made his way into construction, building offshore oil drilling rigs and learning how to weld while assisting a Shipfitter from Kerala, India. Woodworking came after inheriting tools from the person who taught him the basics. The time spent in each craft created an appreciation and admiration of the skill required to craft an object and the vast number of people whose shared methods, tools, and ingenuity allow us to create such works. He received a BFA (2019) and an MFA (2024) at the University of Texas at Arlington, focusing on sculpture and intermedia. He is currently an art educator and bronze art foundry assistant.
TIN Dallas is a noncollecting art space dedicated to showing innovative sculpture and installations, with a focus on materiality and craft.”
Reception: April 5, 2025 | 11 am – 4 pm
516 Fabrication St.
Dallas, 75212 Texas
214.405.5986
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