Current Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: February 8 - March 2nd, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 8, 6-9 pm
Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5 pm, except for Second Saturdays when hours are 6-9 pm.
image credit: Imogen Banks
Soft Insides is recent work by Imogen Banks which meets at the strange intersection between our bodies (the wonderful and grotesque) and functional design for the home. Visually she has been interested in organs, wombs, lumps, boulders & stones, flesh & blood. These things incite a feeling of being at home in one’s body, an appreciation for the squishy and irregular, and the creation of art for the home as a celebration of this. Soft Insides is made of 3-D work: textile as sculpture, and objects as paintings. As with the majority of Banks’ work, concept is a product of creation. This collection grew as an exploration of the body as home, but this conceptual contextualization was not clear to her until after producing the work. Imogen continues to be fascinated by artistic creativity as a mysterious and subliminal internal process that implicates her as a vessel or a machine that produces abstract objects.
Staple Goods Collective member since 2021, Imogen Banks, is a visual artist living in New Orleans, LA. She graduated from the University of Oregon in 2014 with a BFA in Painting. Solo exhibitions include - Ditch Projects in Springfield, Oregon 2015, Artsdigital in Eugene, Oregon 2016, and Staple Goods in New Orleans, LA in 2022. She is a painter and fiber artist interested in the creation of an abstract and subtle visual language.
Connections: Staple Goods 10th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog
Exhibition catalog commemorates the collective’s 10th anniversary exhibition, Connections (May 2021), and is available for $5.
Text by Amy Mackie. Book Design by Tiffany Lin. Printed at Paper Machine. Curated by Laura Richens.
Participating Artists: Minka/Thomasine, Aaron Collier, Robyn Denny, William DePauw, Abe Geasland, Daniel Kelly IV, Kristina Knipe, J Knoblach, Norah Lovell, Kaori Maeyama, Anne Nelson, Jack Niven, Laura Richens, Cynthia Scott, Sadie Sheldon, Lorna Williams