Join us on Saturday, February 4 at 2PM for an intimate artist-led tour with the exhibiting artists of their exhibitions on view: Emily Clayton, Hydra and Tomi Faison, First As Tragedy, Then As LARP.
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Born in Savannah, Tennessee, Emily Clayton received her BFA from University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2004 and her MFA from New York University in 2015. Her recent exhibitions include: a forthcoming solo presentation at Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN (2023); Love, New York, NY (2020); Fiebach, Minninger, Cologne, Germany (2020); Ciccio, New York, NY (2019); Kate Werble, New York, NY (2015); and Susan Inglett, New York, NY (2015). In 2018 she published a drawing book, How to Write an Erotic Novel, with A6 Books in London.
Tomi Faison is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Her work is interested in systems, politics, psychoanalysis, and internet culture. She has participated in group shows and screenings in Baltimore, DC, Frederick, Holyoke, Ann Arbor, Chicago, and New York. Her first solo show, Phase Change, at the Frederick Arts Council in 2019 was a year long, three part, exploration of difference and becoming articulated through the phases of the hydraulic cycle. In 2020, she was a founding curator and technical director of a public access style 24/7 live stream project called QuaranTV, which streamed non-stop for the first 2000 hours of the pandemic and was listed as a part of Wire Magazine’s best of 2020. In 2021 she was a founding member of online arts, politics, and research community and publishing platform Do Not Research, where she now serves as the director of audio-visual programming. Currently, she is in post production on her first narrative feature film Transformers: Terminal, a film she co-wrote and produced, set for release in 2023. She lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland with her partner where she likes to drive her ‘94 Ford Ranger a little too fast.
Image: First As Tragedy, Then As LARP (film still), 2022. 16mm film footage shot by the artist at the January 6th 2021 “Stop The Steal” protest turned riot, two flags, dimensions variable.