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EVANS CONTEMPORARY, PETERBOROUGH
FEBRUARY 2 - FEBRUARY 24, 2018

In these islands, someone is writing about the inside from the inside. Each sculpture is a document of the movements used to birth and rebirth a series of objects in aging plastic, each framed with imitation granite. Looking down into the pools, I can see collections of rhyming objects, all types of long tubes with rounded tops: hot dog shapes, pickles, plastic asparagus, ice cube trays and pill pods. Each object seems to be speaking a shared language of organization and aspiration, as well as its own version of indent, filler, content and reaction. Each pickle suspended in translucent plastic cushioning, like a prehistoric mosquito trapped in amber, containing data from a previous moment.

The orderly quality of the materials are a nod to usefulness and clarity but they won't be defined by it the way a long bone advantages a leg. The pod’s shapes are illformed to reveal anything else about their status. They are also heavy, girthy and gasoline coloured, comprised of hundreds of different household items like cleaners, snacks, toys, utensils and body products. The giant specimens are polluted with supplementary materials in what looks like a continual effort to make something better by adding more.

Inside the king's stomach is something that both pollutes and defines him, nourishes and contaminates. The fitful way I treat my body is mirrored in the conflation of attraction and sustenance, mixing up health and flavour, salty and sweet. The toxic and the edible overlap and feed on one another, mirroring the way bodies grow up and grow old at the same time. The way a piece of over-ripened fruit begins to look over-bright, with a tightened skin that’s holding in something already deteriorating. These sculptures track the effects of gravity, evaporation, climate and time. Their form mirrors the pressure of a growing body that has had to morph and stretch to accommodate muscles that can't be contained.

Katie Lyle, 2018

Marlowe open her eyes and swallowed Zaneʼs deep body smell.

Plexiglas, Gain® Ultra Dishwashing Liquid, Original Scent, Inkjet Print on Paper, Steel
60 x 36 x 1 3⁄4 in.
2018

The BaByliss Ultra Series institutionalized all forms of human function into low, flat intensities.

Plexiglas Unico Olives, 3D printed grapes, Del Monte® Sliced Peaches Yellow Cling Peaches, Hellmann's® Light Mayonnaise, Pigmented FlexFoam-iT! ® III, Yankee Candle® Home Sweet Home® Fragrance SpheresTM, Forbo Flooring System Rubber, Betty Crocker® Cup, Froot Loops®, Bick's® Dill Pickles, President's Choice® The Decadent Chocolate Chip Cookie, Hot Dog Trays 8-Pack, Smooth-Cast® 325, 326, Hair, Cast Ash Tray and IKEA Cereal Bowl, Miscellaneous Objects, Aluminum Drain, Inkjet Print on Transparency, Con-Tact® Brand Creative CoveringTM Self- Adhesive Shelf and Drawer Liner, Granite, Snake Plywood
12 x 42 x 42 in.
2018

Modern mathematics and sullied diapers was all Hal needed to formulate the truly terrifying theological models that characterize Contemporary Life.

Plexiglas Unico® Olives, Pigmented FlexFoam-iT! ® III, Yankee Candle® Home Sweet Home® Fragrance SpheresTM, Forb Flooring System Rubber, Betty Crocker® Coffee Mug, Bick's® Dill Pickles, President's Choice® The Decadent Chocolate Chip Cookie, Hot Dog Trays 8-Pack, Smooth-Cast® 325, 326, Hair, Cardboard Valentines Cartoon Heart Hands, Miscellaneous Objects, Aluminum Drain, Inkjet Print on Transparency, Con-Tact® Brand Creative CoveringTM Self-Adhesive Shelf and Drawer Liner, Granite, Snake Plywood
12 x 42 x 42 in.
2018

Ike knew she wanted something out of life that it could not offer and it made the situation all the more unbearable.

Plexiglas, Inkjet Print on Paper, Purex® Dirt Lift Action
Coldwater Laundry Liquid, Steel
60 x 36 x 1 in.
2018

Add two tins of Tropicana, half a gallon of black berry ice cream, blend thoroughly, and it's ready to serve from the bowl.

Glass, Unico Olives, 3D printed grapes, Hellmann's® Light Mayonnaise, resin, pigmented FlexFoam-iT! ® III, Yankee Candle® Home Sweet Home® Fragrance SpheresTM, Lingerie Solutions-Enhancers Bust Enlarging Silicone Bra Inserts, Bick's® Dill Pickles, President's Choice® The Decadent Chocolate Chip Cookie, Del Monte® Sliced Peaches Yellow Cling Peaches, Smooth-Cast® 325, 326, Human Hair, Cast Ash Tray and Bowl, Miscellaneous Objects, Aluminum Drain, Inkjet Print on Transparency, Con-Tact® Brand Creative CoveringTM Self-Adhesive Shelf and Drawer Liner, Granite, Snake Plywood
12 x 42 x 42 in.
2018

Protect Your Mother

Plexiglas, Inkjet Print on Paper, Complements® Lavender Sent Dish Soap, Steel
86 x 30 x 1 3⁄4 in.
2018

The telephone melted into a pond of blue goo in Jasmine's clammy palm after a caller's obscene message.

Glass, Unico® Stuffed Manzanilla Olives, Maynards Swedish Berries, White Wood Letters by Artminds®, 9” pigmented FlexFoam-iT! ® III, LEGO® found objects, 3D printed cookies, Yankee Candle® Home Sweet Home® Fragrance SpheresTM, Del Monte® Sliced Peaches Yellow Cling Peaches, President's Choice® The Decadent Chocolate Chip Cookie, Bick's® Dill Pickles, Smooth-Cast® 325, 326, Miscellaneous Objects, Aluminum Drain, Inkjet Print on Transparency, Con-Tact® Brand Creative CoveringTM Self-Adhesive Shelf and Drawer Liner, Granite, Snake Plywood
12 x 42 x 4 in.
2018