Method at Angel’s Gate Cultural Center

Method, on view at Angel’s Gate Cultural Center is a group exhibition that focuses on systems. Guest juried by Kira Xonorika with SUPERCOLLIDER, the exhibition houses a range of materials and methods, from prints to videos to fiber, installation, and much more. In this way, each artwork is its own little system that creates its own logic.

Across the show, many works include natural elements like cotton, rocks, river water, and in one instance, even the artist’s own blood. Yet, amidst these natural materials, there is a strong digital and technological bent… In some cases technology seems to be working in concert with the human body or the natural elements, in others, it presents a juxtaposition. In some works, the futility of technology seems to come through, like in Devin Wilson’s sculptural piece “In-Techs Winged Conveyer Belt | Endless Loop,” a functioning conveyer belt with faux bird poop that’s been splattered on its belt, moving with each rotation on an endless loop or Jenna Caravello’s “Easy Ultra Fine,” an interactive virtual game where participants can punch numerical codes into a keypad, causing random objects and events to take place on the connected screens. 

Elsewhere, like in Ashton Phillips’ “Worm Bath, Altar Piece,” a functioning ecosystem containing municipal water being pumped through a rich natural mix (including the remains of plastic-eating mealworms and mycelium spores) that works to continuously evolve the ecosystem, making it more alive over time, suggest scientific solutions might work in concert to maintain and protect the natural world.

Photo: Dylan Ricards, Material Feedback Loop, 2023. Concrete, plywood, aluminum, paper, wheat paste, water hyacinth, video, electrical components.10 x 10 x 4 feet.