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RADICLE PAPYRUS
The work establishes the existence of overlapping territory between the history of papermaking and the root vegetable. The exhibit includes related sound collaborations with Scott Cazan.
Feb 4 - Mar 31 | More Info
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RADICAL PAPAYRUS
In the Gallery: February 4th - March 31st
Part 1:
For RADICLE PAPYRUS, Julia Goodman makes papyrus out of beets using bold colors and diverse symmetries that exist underground. Her continued interests in mortality and scarcity influence her use of delicate materials. The work establishes the existence of overlapping territory between the history of papermaking and the root vegetable. The exhibit includes related sound collaborations with Scott Cazan.
Part 2:
“With the abundance of paper used today throughout the world in books, magazines, and newspaper and for writing, it is difficult to conceive that there was a period of thousands of years when true paper did not exist. At the present time it would be impossible for civilization to endure, even for a day, the total lack of paper – a material that is as little understood by the average consumer as it is indispensable.”
Dard Hunter, Papermaking: The History & Technique of An Ancient Craft (1943)
Artist Statement:
My work originates from my investigation into the materials used before the widespread availability of paper, known as pre-paper technologies. Using this root vegetable and its incredible staining powers, I explore the different steps in the papyrus making process. The result is a thin, transparent, skin-like, intensely colored material. There’s something simple and satisfying about repositioning a material and letting light come through something that grows underground.
photo credit courtesy of In The Make
The Bathroom Residency
The Bathroom Residency is the second piece in a long-term project entitled "The Residencies" launched in 2009 during Julie Kahn's stay at the Headlands Center for the Arts. With "The Residencies," Julie is inverting the traditional concept of the artist residency from a "retreat" to withdraw from society into a "treat" to engage with society by inventing projects with entrepreneurs in order to live out fantasies, learn new processes, and connect more deeply with work, community, and the food chain. The first edition, "The Cici Residency," unfolded at Gelateria Cici in Mill Valley where the intrepid founders generously allowed Julie to be “in residence” to explore her twin fantasies of making gelato and wet plate collodion tintype portraits. With the 18R edition, taking cues from the urban-minimal-natural aesthetic goals of the new 18R space as well as the local-seasonal-organic refrain of Bi-Rite Market, the installation will take place in the bathroom, made from natural materials and change quarterly. The bathroom reminds us that in spite of our lofty urban ambitions, nature is always just on the other side of the wall, waiting to bust on through. The Bathroom Residency an ongoing annual program. After Julie's one-year tenure, she will pass the tp to an artist of her choosing to take up residence in the special room for resting.