On View: January 26th - March 1st
Curator: Christian Bumala
Artists: Laveen Gammie, Rebekka Federle, Susan Jablonski
For all the space between the two, between that and you, far less merely is and far more has become. What you see is done, bound up in its own becoming with the ways another thought it might be. Something close to projection, molded by a rougher touch, comes into focus. The trick is to spot the seams.
Stable considers the work behind all that has already been, taking into question the labor underpinning our conception of the often taken for granted. In recent projects in sculpture and cyanotype, Rebekka Federle, Laveen Gammie, and Susan Jablonski prod the unruly edges relating bodies, structures, and the natural world. Together their work unsettles the presumed boundaries between fixed and fluid, instead foregrounding the mutual dependencies woven through acts of becoming. In each artist’s hands, product registers practice as the imprint of time, habit, and the concerted efforts troubling both.
Rebekka Federle is a sculptor and collage artist exploring the limits of empathy, the inconstancy of language and truth, and domination. Her work places the viewer into a position of benevolence and lets them decide if they will choose to extend care.
She earned her MFA from the University of Chicago, and a BFA in Woodworking and Furniture Design from the Maine College of Art. Recently she has shown at the Cochran Woods Art Center (Chicago, IL), The Lawn (Chicago, IL), The Logan Center (Chicago, IL), and Judith Racht (Harbert, MI). She is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago.
Susan Jablonski is an artist and photographer currently based in Chicago, IL. Working with analog photographic processes, her practice explores the notion of the “constructed image” and the dialogue between digital image capture and the handmade. By creating opportunities to engage with the tactile possibilities of image making, she is interested in flattening the layers of embedded photographic thinking and the supposed reality of images. Susan earned her MFA from the University of Chicago, as well as a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Laveen Gammie is an artist that works in sculpture and installation, presently with ceramics, found objects, video, and photographic images.
