Original Exhibition Text:

Barely two months have passed since Etta Sandry and Ever Baldwin spent time at the ACRE artist residency, but both artists have spent that time deeply engaging with objects tied to their experience there. Although the work on display in Movements and Transformations is not about ACRE, the site of the residency provides an important point of reference for the decisions of each artist.

Baldwin gathered wood from around the grounds in Steuben and kept bits from other projects to build sculptures. She then makes paintings inspired by the sculptures. Resemblance is not the goal, but their placement in proximity to each other hints at Baldwin’s process–one that reflects the multiplicity of vision. Baldwin’s focused meditations in various media allow her to expand her ken to include both the seen and the felt.

Sandry spent much of the summer traveling, and without a smart phone, she relied on handmade sets of directions to find her way to places like ACRE. For this exhibition, Sandry has taken these hand-drawn directions, pieces of ephemera often considered disposable, and created weavings based on their text and image. For Sandry, these weavings are about honoring the quotidian. Her process of meticulously documenting the labor that goes into each textile demonstrates her commitment to slowly unfolding the layers of meaning that she finds in the everyday.