Katherine Earle & Carol Paik

Curated by Connie Lee 

April 24 – May 22, 2022

Location

181 East 108th St

East Harlem, NYC

Gallery Hours Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 2:00 – 6:00 pm 

Miscreant Matter 

“While as humans, we are vital players in this world, so too are things.”

Can we capture all the discarded, rejected, degenerate, degraded and miscreant matter and repurpose it through these small acts of creation? What becomes of our environment when we cease to stratify matter into a tiered system of value and importance, and instead re-envision the disposable as a building block of the universe. If the trash we discard is made from matter just as we are, then what is the power of things? 

 
In the consistent repair and reimagining of the castaway matter in our lives, we interrupt our learned habits of relegating some items to the status of nonessential. By engaging with these vibrant materials, we reimagine the hierarchization of our material world. Artists Carol Paik and Katherine Earle are both “redefining the human relationship with materials as communicative” as a method towards bringing us “closer to an ecological sensibility.”

Quotes are from Laurel Mcleod writing on Jane Benett’s Vibrant Matter

Artist bios:

Katherine Earle A fiber artist, multimedia sculptor and writer, Katherine Earle is based in East Harlem, New York. Her work is tactile with an interest in the intricacy of the natural world and its ecosystems and has been shown in two-person and group exhibitions internationally including Copeland Gallery, ABC No Rio, Sculptors Alliance, Art Aqua Miami, SVA, Site:Brooklyn, The KUBE studios and Diagonale. She is recent recipient of a grant from the FST StudioProjects Fund, and her website and Instagram @kekearle

Carol Paik is a textile and mixed-media artist who divides her time between New York City and Pound Ridge, New York. A former lawyer and writer, her goal now is to create art exclusively out of the unappreciated, overlooked, landfill-destined stuff she finds around her, of which there is certainly no shortage. Her work has been shown in New York City; Yonkers, NY; Poughkeepsie, NY; Pelham, NY; Plainfield, NJ; Pound Ridge, NY; and various online exhibits. To see more of her work, please visit her website and Instagram @capaik670.