JANUARY 22 - MARCH 11, 2022
Gallery hours : Monday - Friday : Noon - 6PM
“Porous: Works from the Field,” features three series of artworks by visual artist and writer Linnéa Ryshke, which she created in response to visiting sites of human-animal interaction. The subsequent paintings, drawings, objects and poems are material records of her empathy with the animals whom she encountered. Concerned over the wellbeing of animals whose lives humans disrupt, exert control over, and exploit for economic gain, Ryshke tasks her work in reconciling the alienated human-animal relationship and restoring respect and reverence for the animals with whom we live.
The show features works from her recently published book, Kindling, which centers on her experience working on an organic meat farm. In Kindling, Ryshke writes, “Art can seem frivolous when faced with unending assault on animal lives that has reached exponential proportions. Art will not save these lives or stop these systems. But it will do the quiet, slow, subterranean work. Art seeks, makes and shares meaning between us humans.” In engaging with her work, she invites us into this task of meaning-making, to participate in conceiving other ways to relate and care across species lines.
When will we wake and realize these walls were, all along, only skin?
Bone-Stone I
Bone-Stone II
Bone-Stone III
Bone-Stone IV
Bone-Stone V
Burned Back to Air Too Soon
Her Imprint on My Palm Lingers
Temper
Tendering
Soft, of Fur, of Skin, of Voice, of Touch, of Hair, a Whisper, Barely There
Host
To Say Their Own Names
Speak
Remains
Exhibit I
Exhibit II
Exhibit III
Exhibit IV
Exhibit V
Exhibit VI
Exhibit VII
Exhibit VIII
Exhibit IX
Exhibit X
Linnéa Ryshke (American, born in 1993) creates mixed-media paintings, drawings, sculpture and poetry that seek to restore the value of nonhuman animals as kindred beings worthy of our adoration, respect, and empathy. She creates art objects that invite other humans to honor the enigmatic subjectivity of the fellow creatures with whom we share this earth-home. With her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute and M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, she has been exhibited nationally and recently published her first book Kindling with Lantern Publishing and Media in September 2021.
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Kindling by Linnéa Ryshke
currently available for purchase in our gallery.
About the Kindling :
A collection of beautifully poignant and moving poems and artwork from a talented artist who spent a summer interacting with the animals on an organic meat farm.
In the summer of 2019, artist and poet Linnéa Ryshke worked as a laborer at an organic meat farm. She transformed what she saw, as well as the specific and acute interactions she had with the animals, into a series of poems, photographs, and artwork. Ryshke’s intimate, honest, and poignant account reflects what it means to confront the lives and deaths of individual creatures who are valued commodities. Through image and text, Kindling profoundly evokes experiences with animals that will leave a lasting impression on the reader.