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Left: Julia Goodman, Farther and Farther (III), 2023, Watercolor on hand formed paper. Pulp made from different color repurposed bedsheets and t-shirts, 22.50 x 17.50 x 0.50 in Right: Klea McKenna, Untitled (cascade) from the series Rainbow Bruise, 2023, Unique photographic relief. Embossed silver gelatin photogram and fabric dye., 41 x 32 in
VESSEL Julia Goodman & Klea McKenna
September 7 - October 28, 2023
EUQINOM Gallery is pleased to present Vessel, a two person exhibition with new works from Julia Goodman and Klea McKenna. Vessel will be on view from September 7 through October 28th with an opening reception on Saturday, September 9 from 1:30-4 pm. Both artists will be in attendance.
Vessel brings together two gallery artists, and long-time friends, for the first time in a two person exhibition at EUQINOM. Julia Goodman and Klea McKenna are both Bay Area-based artists whose work centers time and its relationship to our human experience. While working in markedly different mediums, the artists overlap in their innovative and intimate relationship to their material processes, which are shaped by years of experimentation and adaptation. In their textural and low relief works, they also share subject matters – short and long time, bodies, human connection, caretaking, and transformation. Vessel is a presentation of two artists using their personal experiences to explore the sublime in the hard work of caring for and carrying on for each other, our children, and future generations.
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Julia Goodman (b. 1979, Atlanta, GA) earned an MFA from California College of the Arts (2009) and a BA in International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University (2001). She studied art at Santa Monica College (2002-2006). Recent exhibitions include the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA; Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL; and California College of the Arts Hubbell Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Her work is included in the collections of National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. and the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL. Her residencies include JB Blunk Residency, Inverness, CA; Recology SF, San Francisco, CA; Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA; and Salina Art Center, Salina, KS. Goodman lives and works in Berkeley with artist Michael Hall and their young child.
Klea McKenna (b. 1980, Freestone, CA) is a visual artist who writes and makes films and is known for cameraless photography and her innovative use of light-sensitive materials. She is a 2023 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Photography. Her work is held in several public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; United States Embassy Collection; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She studied art at UCLA, UCSC, and California College of the Arts. Klea is the daughter of renegade ethnobotanist, Kathleen Harrison and psychedelic philosopher, Terence McKenna. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and their young children.
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