Overflow

ROY presents: Erin Furimsky & Katie Davis

Fri, May 8, 2020 - 6:30 PM
Thu, Jun 4, 2020 - 3:30 PM

Katie Davis shares, “I am a mixed media painter, interested in time, land, and mental mapping. For me, painting is a means to escape linear time and ponder other possibilities of being. As a woman, I sense time passing cyclically, rather than in a straight line. When I see the visual world around me, I don’t see one moment. I see millions of moments building on one another, and falling back on one another, to create a fragile, and beautiful present. My work is bright, abstract, and fertile. I see it as a growing and shifting universe where everything is ultimately connected. For materials, I work on wood panels, layering paper and paint on top on one another. This layering creates a tactile surface that shows the process as well as the moment of completion. For imagery, I use topographic and mapping elements to mimic the way humans have moved and shifted through time. I work within the tension of a locked in structure and a sense of connectedness to something bigger than just one moment....movement, growth, and overflow. There is a hope of renewal in my work, an ever expanding universe.”

Katie shares more about her work

Katie’s website & instagram

Follow Katie when she takes over ROY’s IG May 19

Erin Furimsky creates ceramic sculptures that are swelled, carved, and glazed meticulously. Elements of familiar domestic objects are extracted and reconstructed, allowing her to investigate not only their aesthetic qualities, but also their multiple symbolic functions within our lives. These familiar objects expand with volume becoming bulbous sensual forms that puff out of their own skin, like a pregnant belly or an overstuffed arm chair. She is inspired by the language of ornament enveloping objects and the human form.

Erin’s website

Follow Erin when she takes over ROY’s IG May 21

Both artists use organic shapes, pattern, and deliberate mark making that is rendered in an unabashedly blissful manner. There is an element of abundance and overflow present in both women's work that doesn't hold back. Sometimes there is a weight and fullness which contrast with other sections that feel buoyant, as if they could float away carrying the rest along with them. Erin investigates where these two realms, groundedness and weightlessness, overlap, reflecting the liminal state she often feels in daily life, while Katie investigates the human desire for rootedness and expansion outward, an overflow of desire.

Artwork is for sale and priced as marked. Artists receive 65% of sales and the 35% ROY retains is invested back into the gallery.

Erin Furimsky’s work

left to right: From the Roots $1500; Reaching Up / Touching Down $2000; Growing in Brief Light $2000; Cut the String $2000; Origin $1500