On show from 3-25 April 2025, Boxwood is a painting show that ties together themes of the imagination and drives towards symbolic signifiers to make sense of the subconscious.
Savanna Szelski, Madeleine Peters, Clara Joyce
3-25 April 2025
Opening celebration Thursday 3 April, 5-7pm
A soliloquy for a forgotten time, Boxwood is a painting show that stands for what it is: painting; in all its contortions is presented through three defined practices. One artist dealing with the imagination, one artist dealing with the obfuscated image and one artist dealing with the technical image. This show is about the power play of symbolism in the dream life and in waking life. Taken from a poem by Jean Genet, the title Boxwood speaks to the dark and the absurd; the scrap material needed to manufacture a handmade coffin, the wooden box is a pervasive metaphor that suggests life is not complete without material circumstances. Drawing upon images from dream fugue states, journal entries, ancient symbolism as well as a reflection upon all the Northern Renaissance had to teach us about intricacies, miniatures and details that often sink into the background. This painting show ties together themes of the imagination and drives towards symbolic signifiers to make sense of the subconscious.