Stacy Jo Scott
Lo, A Vase in the Dark
June 11 – July 24
HOLDING Contemporary presents Lo, A Vase in the Dark featuring new ceramic and print works by Stacy Jo Scott. Please join us for a socially-distanced reception on June 11 from 4–6pm. The exhibition runs from June 11 through July 24. Gallery hours are by appointment Fridays and Saturdays between noon and 5pm. Please email info@holdingcontemporary.com to schedule. Social distancing rules allow for no more than two visitors in the space at a time, and masks are required.
In Lo, A Vase in the Dark, Stacy Jo Scott translates fragments of 3D scans and code-based processes into clay figures, masks, and vessels. Scott parses out digital shards, partial stories, and fragmentary objects and reconstructs them as new bodies, forming new lineages. The collaged works included in the exhibition are formed through the artist's process of imagining a new body woven from the past. Rescanned and reformed through the use of digital processes with clay, the body enters a space of machinic order and is rendered malleable, changeable, inexact, and hollow. Full of holes, gapes, and wounds, the body is represented as sliced and incomplete. Scott’s sculptures and prints portray human physicality as raw material to bend, twist, and reform into new creatures and reimagined bodies through spectral association.
Stacy Jo Scott uses ceramic objects and digital processes as anchors from which to navigate shifting landscapes of queerness, embodiment, and spectrality. These objects emerge from research, digital processes, trance practices, and chance operations. Her work revolves around imaging the ephemeral body and speculating on queer lineages and futurities. The speculative nature of her inquiries is grounded in confounding the relationship between clay’s materiality and the supposed purity of machinic code. Stacy Jo explores how digital media renders embodiment, and how computational tools can be used to convey illegible histories or mythic futures. She employs the more ancient skills of hand-working clay alongside generative software tools, unorthodox 3D printing, and CNC hacks. The idiosyncrasies of clay interrupt the numeric logic of the machine, looping it back into a queered transient world of direct embodied experience. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon.
HOLDING Contemporary presents exhibitions and programs by visual artists across disciplines. Through our curatorial vision and alternative community-driven business model we seek to challenge the economic and social privilege of the art world.
