Subtle Shifts
May 21 - June 19, 2021
Buckham Gallery is pleased to present our next exhibition, Subtle Shifts. Curated by Jon P. Geiger and featuring works by Brian Caponi, Lindsey Dezman and Adam Milner, Subtle Shifts brings forth a series of works that explores the artifacts of the insignificant and the mundane into a larger dialogue about time, loss, memory, decay, and vulnerability.
May 21 - June 19, 2021
Buckham Gallery is pleased to present our next exhibition, Subtle Shifts. Curated by Jon P. Geiger and featuring works by Brian Caponi, Lindsey Dezman and Adam Milner, Subtle Shifts brings forth a series of works that explores the artifacts of the insignificant and the mundane into a larger dialogue about time, loss, memory, decay, and vulnerability.
Curatorial Statement
Subtle Shifts brings forth a series of works that explore artifacts of the insignificant and the mundane into a larger dialogue about time, loss, memory, decay, and vulnerability. Brian Caponi’s work pulls from elements of his family’s home to serve as a platform for fabricated forms, material experiments, and transformative found objects. His material processes puzzle together his personal associations of the human spirit. The repurposing of drywall from his childhood bedroom and the ceramic castings of voids left by old fence posts subtly brings the viewer into Caponi’s personal understanding of the keystone elements from his childhood home.
Ceramicist Lindsey Dezman's Dust Plate showcases weekly house sweepings that have been burned into each individual plate serving as a commemoration of the time that has passed. Some plates are heavy with combustion due to her dog shedding its winter’s coat while others are lighter and airer marking a time when foot traffic was low within the house. This is done alternatively with her series of pencil drawings in which she records her observations of the garden located outside the studio. Here, one sees how the surrounding area informs and influences Dezman’s love for recording and observation. The subtle pencil marks highlight beautiful moments often missed such as the change in grass due season, weather, or her dogs. Adam Milner’s work showcases a unique skill of transforming fragments of items such as eyelashes, toenails, belly button lint and blood into tactical compositions and arrangements. The soaking of Adam’s own blood into his drawings or the delicate pressing of eyelashes collected from the bathroom into paper reveal a personal vulnerability that can be often overlooked. Adam’s use of materials reveals a personal vulnerability while examining broader politics of relationships and human intimacy.
The exhibition at Buckham Gallery features focused moments of each of the three artists along with several tables that combine their work into collective arrangements to showcase their combined interests in the mundane and insufficient.
Jon P Geiger, May 2021
Subtle Shifts brings forth a series of works that explore artifacts of the insignificant and the mundane into a larger dialogue about time, loss, memory, decay, and vulnerability. Brian Caponi’s work pulls from elements of his family’s home to serve as a platform for fabricated forms, material experiments, and transformative found objects. His material processes puzzle together his personal associations of the human spirit. The repurposing of drywall from his childhood bedroom and the ceramic castings of voids left by old fence posts subtly brings the viewer into Caponi’s personal understanding of the keystone elements from his childhood home.
Ceramicist Lindsey Dezman's Dust Plate showcases weekly house sweepings that have been burned into each individual plate serving as a commemoration of the time that has passed. Some plates are heavy with combustion due to her dog shedding its winter’s coat while others are lighter and airer marking a time when foot traffic was low within the house. This is done alternatively with her series of pencil drawings in which she records her observations of the garden located outside the studio. Here, one sees how the surrounding area informs and influences Dezman’s love for recording and observation. The subtle pencil marks highlight beautiful moments often missed such as the change in grass due season, weather, or her dogs. Adam Milner’s work showcases a unique skill of transforming fragments of items such as eyelashes, toenails, belly button lint and blood into tactical compositions and arrangements. The soaking of Adam’s own blood into his drawings or the delicate pressing of eyelashes collected from the bathroom into paper reveal a personal vulnerability that can be often overlooked. Adam’s use of materials reveals a personal vulnerability while examining broader politics of relationships and human intimacy.
The exhibition at Buckham Gallery features focused moments of each of the three artists along with several tables that combine their work into collective arrangements to showcase their combined interests in the mundane and insufficient.
Jon P Geiger, May 2021