Air Alone (from my dream)
2025-05-03 -> 2025-05-31
Air Alone (from my dream) is a two-person show featuring the work of Kim Altomare and Melina Auskaitis, two artists that make things.
Like a thought that snares in one’s mind to come back again and again, when most emerge only to disappear forever, Kim and Melina’s work intersects, snares, and drifts together in the same way the remnants of a shipwreck collect and settle at the bottom of the ocean.
Kim makes things from paper, pulp paintings and basket woven sculptures, that create a world where collective dreams can take shape. Reed, pulp, and rusted wire become embedded, encased with the detritus of studio and street. Melina, too, secrets things, sandwiching them in garment-shaped layers of fabric, media and discarded paintings. Tapping into histories of teenage girlhood, collecting and compressing them, keeping safe where we first learn of feelings, Melina strums.
Air alone does not suffice. It envelops thickly, transmitting condensation. Whorls go. We connect body to feeling to sound.
This exhibition is curated by Michelle Anne Harris with assistance from William Schwaller.
There will be an Opening Reception on Saturday, May 3rd, 5-9pm, with performances by Aitis Band and Saggy, starting at 7pm.
And a Closing Reception on Saturday, May 31st, 1-4pm, will run in conjunction with Harris's and Altomare's Penpals for Palestine! project: Kim Altomare + Cindy Stockton Moore + Sunny Hsu + Michelle Anne Harris with directive prompts provided by Yaqeen Yamani and Jericho Cinema Club
1-2 pm Postcards + Paper Making + Printmaking + Posters
2-4 pm Eco Wheatpasting