Martha Mysko, Anne Vieux - Culture Room - February 22nd 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Josef Albers wrote that “the origin of art [is] the discrepancy
between physical fact and psychic effect.”

Anne Vieux and Martha Mysko developed Down the Pigeon Hole by
examining the relational meaning of objects and their abstraction
through framing. The work developed through several video chat conversations,
where they created malleable compositions through the
frame of the screen. Experimenting with various video chat software led to a dialogue between the artist's household objects and tchotchkes -- one that probes the state of being bored within a domestic setting.

Reflecting on conventions of painting and applying
them to the objects which recur in projection and printed materials,
cultural meaning is complicated and disordered as objects are  transformed
into an immediate abstraction. Themes of fertility, religion, and the cosmic
emerge through categorization and formal play within a disjunctive narrative
that takes a gestural approach to abstract painting. Down the Pigeon Hole is a
collaborative effort that reflects a desire to find some re-enchantment in our
secular realities.