Soft/Hard Surface/Sound

HAIR + NAILS is pleased to announce Soft/Hard Surface/Sound — concurrent art exhibitions of new ceramics, sculpture, and painting by Jasmine Peck and Ryan Fontaine.

Jasmine Peck says of her work: “The ceramic forms that I bring into being are both grounded in our bodily reality and hovering in a strange blobby uncanniness. I want viewers to become aware of their bodies when encountering my work, to ask themselves; what the standards are for how a body should look? Where can a body inhabit space? What goes into a body and what comes out? I am also searching for the boundaries of the body: where does the inside stop being the inside?"

Ryan Fontaine brings a collection of 5 objects that fall somewhere near the intersection of painting and sculpture. There are painterly abstract works as well as absurd assemblage that hang from the ceiling, anchor to the floor and strap to the wall and themselves. These large-scale works are designed to control every wall in the gallery by taking up too much space, becoming architectural, creating a relationship with the viewer that is immersive and oversaturated.