Exhibition Opening: Therefore, I Am: Works by Brooke Armstrong, Danielle O’Malley, and Tina Opp

The work in this show explores the idea that our existence and identity are shaped by the context of our surroundings. Armstrong weaves a symbolic collective from individual clay beads, O’Malley uses earthenware and upcycled materials to examine the relationship between modern society and the natural world, and Opp’s atmospheric surfaces and forms referencing organic objects call to mind the connectivity of all things in nature. The titular phrase “Therefore, I am” references “Es, ergo sum” (you are, therefore I am), a de-individualized play on Descarte’s “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am). This work reminds us that art can be a tool for imagining a different world, and practicing a way of being aligned with such.