Amy Kligman: Being Still /. Still Being

April 10 – May 17

Opening Reception: Friday, April 10, 6 pm–8 pm

Our contemporary world is so frenetic there is no room for stillness. There is a constant and constantly bombastic inundation of chaos- a full marching parade going on in your head at all times. Yet, when we find time for a quiet moment, there is so much to be gained in it. These paintings are my forced quiet moments. In gathering, composing, and representing each point of reference from iconography in the wallpaper to book titles, I am having a conversation with myself, spending time in rumination. I make these paintings as a centering ritual to gather my thoughts on various concerns (class, justice, feminism, social anxiety, the forgotten, systems of hierarchy and power, art history, history writ large, systems of care and support). I hope that the resulting imagery creates a sanctuary space for the viewer for their own reflections in stillness, perhaps informed and prompted by my intentions and the symbolism embedded in the work, perhaps loaded with their own histories and associations.