The hand is a horological device
Featuring Work by Amanda Nedham, Lauren Pakradooni, and Sarah McDougald Kohn
MAY 13 - JUNE 18, 2023
Opening Reception Saturday, May 13, 5-7 PM
Transmitter is pleased to announce The hand is a horological device, featuring work by Amanda Nedham, Lauren Pakradooni, and Sarah McDougald Kohn.
There’s a cyclical focus to the work by the artists in this exhibition - whether it’s the way they approach their process or a part of their content. Like horologists studying the nature of time and the loop, these artists revisit - with their hands and muscle memory - the iconography, patterns, or perceptions that demand to be reiterated. Rather than constantly searching for novelty, these artists create generative outcomes with approaches to time and making that are allowed to recycle, reemerge, and be revisited once again with fresh and engaging results.
Along with their interest in the study of “visual-echoes,” the contributing artists share an instinctual working process that yields objects which feel honest, but not overly earnest. At first glance, the artists’ material decisions may be perceived as straightforward or easy to understand, but to leave it at that would negate the beautiful nuance and industrious dedication that is required to make something look simple, underworked, or like it "just came together." The materials aren’t trying to be camouflaged or hidden below a slick façade, but neither is the craftsmanship imploring to take the spotlight. Despite the forthright use of materials, there are consistently surprising, confident, and magnetic outcomes.
About the Artist:
Amanda Nedham completed her BFA at OCAD University in Printmaking and her MFA at RISD in Painting. She currently works and lives in Brooklyn. Her studio practice is interdisciplinary with an emphasis on drawing/installation and is focused on conversations with the dead. Nedham has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council, and more recently was awarded a position in ARTHA's one-year studio residency program in Brooklyn, New York. She helped co-found Below Grand Gallery located in the Lower East Side, freelance curates, and currently teaches Experiments in Drawing at RISD and Drawing Salon at New York City Crit Club. Nedham has published a book of fictional love letters and drawings tracing the history of peacekeeping and is working on a second book focused on the alternative history of drawing. She will attend Rice University this fall as a Ph.D. candidate, focusing on drawing and belief systems. Recent exhibitions include Frida Smoked at Invisible-Exports in New York City, My Boyfriend is a Peacekeeper at Putty's Coronation in New York City, Q: Are you an undertaker? A: No Q: Are you a service provider? A: Yes at LE Gallery in Toronto, Extract IV Young Art Prize in Copenhagen, and the Hello Future Talents Archive Project in Athens.
Lauren Pakradooni lives in Philadelphia, PA. Lauren Pakradooni’s multidisciplinary practice includes printmaking, sculpture, and sound. Material knowledge drives experimentation in the role of the matrix as one that generates discrete systems of making that consider technique and chance operations as a balancing act. Recent work reflects systems of pattern, form, and color found in between the built and natural world. Her work is attentive to instances in which technology and architecture have been influenced by or designed to accommodate or incorporate the natural world. Pakradooni has performed and exhibited work with Monaco Gallery, St Louis, MO; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY; Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA; Skylab, Columbus, OH; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro, VT; Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo, NY; and Leisure Gallery; Denver, Co. She most recently had a solo exhibition entitled “Sprig” at HIllyer Gallery in Washington, D.C. She has been awarded residencies by Women’s Studio Workshop, Wassaic Project, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Pakradooni is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at West Chester University, West Chester, PA.
Sarah McDougald Kohn uses an experimental and playful approach to process and material, making sculptures and drawings that explore the spaces between artifact and art, object and image, and intent and accident. Often pulling from an index of objects laden with warring personal and historical meanings to call upon our collective associations and heritage (chains, braids, knots, ladders, and nets), she seeks to rethink and redeploy their possibilities as informed by her experience as a bi-racial woman considering the collision of skin color and privilege in America. By imposing procedural limitations as a method of process, she examines the opportunities that come from navigating a boundary’s edge, revealing the fruitful and sometimes discordant terrain that resistance can lead to. Sarah McDougald Kohn lives and works in Brooklyn and Columbiaville, New York. Her work has been included in group shows at 303 Gallery, Davidson Contemporary, Rooster Gallery, The Wassaic Project, and Underdonk. McDougald received her MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art.