Apricity Gallery welcomes Natalie Jenkins as a new resident artist to the Tannery Arts Center. She will be sharing space with Sarah Bianco at Apricity to create and display. Samples of both their work will be up for First Friday, January 6th from 5:00-9:00

Natalie Jenkins: Working primarily in sculpture, Natalie Jenkins explores the mediation of ‘seeing’ through physical obstruction and perceptual confusion. She draws inspiration from a broad palette of architecture, myth, allegory, and domestic custom to explore the abstractions underpinning cultural tradition with the acknowledgment that these structures are the bases of subjective vantage points. Surrealist in their representations, the objects are darkly goofy and prop-like as they are constructed from simple materials such as papier-mâché. Visually uniting the work is a thematic grid and/or pattern to suggest a system of order and undefinable space. There is an inside/outside quality to each sculpture; one must view the work through external punctures into its interior in order to piece together the entirety of the composition. Each work plays with how vision, memory, and imagination are conflated into an intelligible unified form.