anyatishgallery

ANYA TISH GALLERY // JULY 10 // 6-9PM

Creature Comforts
Curated by Jennifer Nuttall

nya Tish Gallery is proud to present Creature Comforts, a group exhibit of
regional and international artists whose works in sculpture, collage,
ceramics, and on paper challenge the uncomfortable yet engaging
archetypal characteristics buried within the rich history of storytelling.
Embedded within a mythological vein, the works embody
anthropomorphic and beastlike creatures that represent well known
characters such as the trickster, the mentor, the villain or the hero and the
gallery transforms to become a fantastical landscape in which the viewer
can travel from one threshold to another. The works, both tactile and sleek,
function through a paradoxical aesthetic that appears in one light
appealing but in another frightening, essentially exploring the relationship
between contrasting themes such as irony and truth, innocence and
violence.

Featured artists in Creature Comforts include Louisianan artist Dawn Black, a
recent Lawndale studio resident whose rich and captivating gouache
paintings reassemble cultural figures from the past and present, and
Galveston artist and Lawndale feature Anne Wood, whose kitsch sculptures
intertwine taxidermy animals with oozing, edible-looking liquids that
provoke dialogues between themes of decay and embellishment. Mindy
Kober is a Houston based artist whose gouache paintings interpret
fantastical and childlike environments that depict battles between Civil
War soldiers with oversized domestic animals while British born and Houston
based artist Jennifer Nuttall’s innovative collages explore the unsavory
nature of personal and national identity through a host of childlike/animal
hybrids. Wesley Harvey is a San Antonio based ceramic artist whose
beautiful and delicate figurines are cast from thrown away objects found in
old junk and thrift stores. The objects are brought back to life and embody a
sense of enlightenment while questioning the boundaries between
abandonment and treasury.

Anya Tish Gallery
4411 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77006
(713) 524-2299
www.anyatishgallery.com