Exhibition Catalog - Until the Mud Settles // Catastrophic Molt

UNTIL THE MUD SETTLES katherine hunt

CATASTROPHIC MOLT madelin coit

Harwood Art Center April 26 - June 3, 2021 www.harwoodartcenter.org

COVER: Katherine Hunt, Blue Delphinium no. 2, Canvas, Graphite, Glue, Acrylic, Fiber, Indigo Powder, 60″x36, 2020; Madelin Coit, Catastrophic Molt installation, 2021; Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved

From artists Katherine Hunt and Madelin Coit, we learn that an artist’s primary medium is

time. In their work we see the intensity - and serendipity - that forms from creative practice. We are reminded that a work of art is more than the sum of its parts, or the materiality from which it was created. A creation is imbued with the body, mind and soul of its creator.

Until the Mud Settles by Katherine Hunt offers its viewer a space to sit with the rhythmic

pulse of time. Her methodically rendered fiber works present the encapsulation of the moment between preservation and degradation. It is impossible to ignore Hunt’s presence in her work.

Every line of fiber is so deliberately placed, you can feel the artist’s hand. Each piece, even the monumental, is alive with intimacy. And so, these abstract pieces have the feeling of a portrait - or fingerprint - of the artist.

In Madelin Coit’s Catastrophic Molt the viewer is transported to a space both frozen and

fluctuating. The polycarbonate, paper, and mesh wall sculptures, though stagnant, are made to move by Coit’s mastery of shadow, light, and space. The form and color of her sculpture morph with the conditions of the light - bringing to mind the consistent impermanence of reality. In the gallery Coit creates a space of incubation - a womb of sorts where the viewer is safe to confront the ever changing nature of their environment. In this space perhaps the viewer can introspect, shedding light on their own transformation.

Madelin Coit and Katherin Hunt are examples of the contribution and continued influence

womxn have in abstract and non-representational visual art. Though still underrepresented, womxn have been, and continue to be, resonate voices in a male dominated conversation. Their current exhibitions offer exemplary artistry, vision, and dedication to creative practice.

Helen Atkins, Jordyn Bernicke & Julia Mandeville Co-Curators & Cooperative Leadership Team, Harwood Art Center

UNTIL THE MUD SETTLES

By Katherine Hunt

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?

Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?

-Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching, ch. 15

Katherine Hunt, Plaza Blanca no. 6, Fiber, Masonite, Glue, Paper, Acrylic, 16″x16″, 2020 Katherine Hunt, Badlands no.1, Fiber, Masonite, Glue, Acrylic, Paper, Raw Umber Pigment, Venetian Red Volcanic Rock Pigment, Sandstone Pigment, 16″x16″, 2021 Katherine Hunt, Blue Delphinium no. 1, Canvas, Graphite, Glue, Acrylic, Fiber, 60″x36″, 2020 4

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Helen Atkins, Five, stoneware, 4.5” x 17” x 3”, 2020

Contrasting the methodic repetition of line and geometry with naturally occurring irregularities in fiber, Until the Mud Settles examines the duality between order and ubiquitous chance.

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Natural materials present an inevitable disintegration, while simultaneously, resin and latex offer an earnest attempt at preservation. These works present a process of remediation by inviting the viewer to sit patiently with ambiguity and imperfection while creating a personal narrative with the minimalist abstractions.

“Working with everyday fibers and textiles such as string, twine and rope coated and embedded in adhesives of beeswax, resin, glue and acrylic paint, I create processoriented art that molds materials into intricately controlled forms. Drawing with fiber, my work exists in both two and three dimensional spaces. Inspired by the material explorations of Postminimalist and Fluxus hand-made artwork, I contrast themes of repetition and order against the uncontrollable variations of natural textures. Rooted in abstraction, I construct monochromatic pieces that invite viewers to engage with their own subjectivity, make personal associations and sit patiently with imperfection.”

- Katherine Hunt

Katherine Hunt, Permutation 3, Canvas, Graphite, Glue, Acrylic, Fiber, 36″x36″, 2020 Katherine Hunt, Four Forms 1, Fiber, Masonite, Glue, Paper, Acrylic, Charcoal, Pinon Resin, 16″x16″, 2021 Katherine Hunt, Blackberry Winter, Fiber, Masonite, Glue, Acrylic, 16″x16″, 2021 7

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Page 7-8 L-R: Katherine Hunt, Blue Delphinium no. 2, Canvas, Graphite, Glue, Acrylic, Fiber, Indigo Powder, 60″x36″, 2020; Katherine Hunt, Until the Mud Settles, Fiber, Masonite, Glue, Paper, Acrylic, 16″x16″, 2019; Katherine Hunt, Chama (detail), Found Wood, Fiber, Plastic, Beeswax, Resin, Charcoal, Pine Tar, 20″x17″, 2019 Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved 10

Page 10-11 L-R: Katherine Hunt, Permutation 4, Canvas, Graphite, Glue, Acrylic, Fiber, 36″x36″, 2020 Katherine Hunt, Permutation 5, Canvas, Graphite, Glue, Acrylic, Fiber, 36″x36″, 2020 11

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Katherine Hunt, Until the Mud Settles installation, 2021, Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved

katherine hunt

Katherine attended the University of Minnesota for her BFA in Native American Studies, double minoring in Women’s Studies and Cultural Psychology. She received her MFA from California Institute of Arts, studying abroad Curatorial Studies at La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France. In Los Angeles, Katherine worked in the art department on music videos, feature films and television shows. Alongside art-making, Katherine farmed across the rural U.S and created multiple urban gardens in Minneapolis, New York and Los Angeles. Moving to New Mexico in 2018, she worked alongside Moving Arts Española to create a public art weaving installation and heirloom native garden on the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo land.

Currently, Katherine teaches youth and adult Fiber Art and Land Art classes with multiple New Mexico nonprofits. In April 2020, Katherine was a recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts/ Fulcrum Fund Covid-Relief Grant as well as a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artist-Fund Grant. Her work has exhibited both nationally and internationally. www.katherinehunt.xyz 13

CATASTROPHIC MOLT

By Madelin Coit

A king penguin goes through a phase during which all of its feathers—at once—are being pushed out by new ones. The birds become vulnerable to the cold, and don’t enter the ocean to feed. This is called a “catastrophic molt.” Madelin learned the phrase during her travels in the Antarctic, only weeks before COVID-19 became a global event.

This installation is impacted by the transformation that occurs when we replace old ideas with new ones. It is also deeply informed by her experience in the Antarctic.

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Madelin Coit, Mesh 25, Copper mesh, sheet foam, canvas, shadow, 8″ x 6″ variable Madelin Coit, Catastrophic Molt installation, 2021, Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved

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lighting design by Madelin Coit | lighting technology by Jason Fugitt 16

“Two significant concepts inform my artwork across the trajectory of my multimedia career practice. One is the mystery of interface, the edge that separates one thing or place from another. It may differentiate positive from negative space or divide land from sky as the horizon does. Or, it may be a transition - as night into day or between states of matter: solid, liquid, or gas. The other is my interest in ‘pentimento,’ a painting term about transparency and visual seepage, which includes a deconstruction of layers. That deconstruction declares itself in my work as experienced moments, clumped and aggregated, erased, built up, torn down, and then reconstructed. All of my work speaks to revelation, as in an unveiling, hidden discovery, or ‘aha moment.”

-Madelin Coit

Page 16-17: Madelin Coit, Catastrophic Molt installation, 2021, Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved 17

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Page 18-19: Madelin Coit, Catasrophic Molt installation 2021, Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved Madelin Coit, 4.26.21 Installation (Jellyfish), Chicken wire, brass wire and plastic-coated wire, 5’x4′ shadow variable Madelin Coit, Mesh 27, Fiberglass filter, chicken wire, canvas, shadow, 8″x7″ variable 20

Madelin Coit, Mesh 23, Copper mesh, fiberglass screen, canvas, shadow, 12″ x 6″ variable

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madelin coit

Coit’s career as a professional multi-media artist spans nearly fifty years and has produced numerous series in a variety of media. The environment in flux influences her work and often is the direct subject. Her work has been exhibited nationally at the Los Angeles County Museum, the Hammer Museum, the San Antonio Art Institute, and the Anchorage Museum of Art. Locally, she has shown work in Santa Fe at the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Center for Contemporary Arts, SITE Santa Fe, AXLE Contemporary, Gerald Peters Gallery, and James Kelly Contemporary.

Her work is in the collections of the State of New Mexico, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, and has been featured in publications such as THE Magazine, ARTnews, and Artweek.

She received her BFA from the University of Connecticut. Coit has exhibitied solo and group museum shows nationally and internationally in Japan & Korea. www.madelincoit.com 22

Madelin Coit, Catasrophic Molt installation 2021, Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved 23

HArWood ArT CENTEr 2021 eXHIbITioN cALeNdA

Harwood Art Center is dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportun artists working in any media and from diverse creative fields. Featuring established, emerging, and youth artists, our G Program engages a supportive process from concept development through installation and public opening. In 2021, w a hybrid model that bridges in-person and virtual platforms. For each exhibition, Harwood creates comprehensive outr and digital materials including exhibition catalogs, virtual galleries and artist talks to amplify the unique visions and voi our artists. For more information, or to learn how to apply, please visit harwoodartcenter.org

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MARCH 8 - APRIL 15 ENCOMPASS: A Multi-Generational Art Event Featuring four outdoor installations, one indoor gallery exhibition and online Open Studios shop and galleries. Our featured artists are Lynnette Haozous, Ade Cruz, Caitlin Carcerano, Viola Arduini, Escuela Del Sol Montessori students and Harwood studio artists. Harwood’s annual Encompass is both a reflection of and an offering to our community.

Virtual Artist Talks: Thursday, March 25 | 5:30pm

APRIL 26 - JUNE 3 Until The Mud Settles: Katherine Hunt Contrasting the methodic repetition of line and geometry with naturally occurring irregularities in fiber, Until the Mud Settles examines the duality between the obligation to some semblance of order and the presence of ubiquitous chance.

Catastrophic Molt: Madelin Coit This installation of light, polycarbonate, paper, and mesh is meant to embody the transformation that occurs when we replace old ideas with new ones, and is deeply informed by Coit’s experience in the Antarctic.

Virtual Artist Talks: Thursday, May 13 | 5:30pm

JUNE 14 - JULY 29 SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico Harwood Art Center’s annual juried exhibition, professional development and endowed cash awards program honors emerging artists currently living and working in New Mexico.

SEPTEMBER 27 - NOVEMBER 4 Residency for Art & Social Justice Harwood’s Residency for Art & Social Justice is dedicated to feature and support artists working at the intersections of creative expression and social justice. For the occasion of Harwood’s 30th Anniversary, we are offering and formally establishing our first official seven month residency program.

Virtual Artist Talks: Thursday, October 14 | 5:30pm

DECEMBER 2

Virtual Artist Talks: Thursday, July 8 | 5:30pm

12x12 Fundraising Exhibitions Harwood’s annual fundraising exhibitions featuring established, emerging and youth artists from New Mexico. This event includes 150 works that remain anonymous until sold – for the flat rates of $144 (12”x12”) or $36 (6”x6”), printed exhibition catalogs ($36) and an Artwork Preview before the original works go on sale.

AUGUST 9 - SEPTEMBER 16

Exhibition Runs: December 2 – March 2022

Nate Lemuel Solo Exhibition Winner of our 2020 SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico.

Don’t Think Twice: Apolo Gomez A series of photographic works about the empathic voids brought about by queerness and the societal bonds that form from it.

Night Unraveling: Zahra Marwan A short, sequential, visual narrative of gentle man interrupted by two angry, constantly fighting men who live near him. Running free with their institutionalized misogyny, the series questions masculine traits and being excessively self-impressed.

Virtual Artist Talks: Thursday, August 26 | 5:30pm

Harwood staff curate four exhibitions annually, ENCOMPASS: A Multi-Generational Art Event, SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico, and BRIDGE: Art & Social Justice.

12x12 is our annual fundraiser; all proceeds support our free community arts education, outreach and professional development.

(Top to Bottom; Left to Right): Viola Arduini, Chimera Manifesto (Hybrid Hummingbirds), digital photography, 2020; Apolo Gomez, Poolside with Luke, print, 2020; Madelin Coit, 11.21.16, steel and plastic mesh, 2016; Zahra Marwan, Long Way Home, Watercolor and Ink, October 2019; Katherine Hunt, Tetra no. I, Fiber, Acrylic, Glue, Masonite, Charcoal, Soot, Resin, 2020; Nate Lemeul, Ryan, photography, 2020;

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ABOUT HARWOOD ART CENTER & ESCUELA DEL SOL MONTESSORI HARWOOD ART CENTER’S GALLERIES are dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportunities to artists.

Harwood Staff curate four exhibitions annually; the remaining months are awarded to individuals and groups through a competitive application process.

Harwood, the outreach program of Escuela del Sol Montessori, is a creative center for community and the arts. We believe that equitable access to the arts and opportunities for creative expression are integral to inspired, passionate individuals and to healthy, vibrant communities. Participating at a grassroots level, we recognize and engage the arts as a catalyst for lifelong learning, social change and community development. We provide art education for all ages; community outreach projects and events; teaching and apprenticeship opportunities; and studios, exhibitions and professional development programs for both emerging and established artists.

For 50 years, Escuela del Sol, an independent Montessori school, has nurtured self-discovery, social responsibility and passion for learning in our students.

Each day Escuela supports students from ages 18 months to 13 years on their real-world quests to excel academically and to develop the skills they need for meaningful, happy and successful futures.

Harwood and Escuela are dedicated to instilling a passion for lifelong learning, creative expression and positive impact on our world.

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HARWOOD ART CENTER’S OFFICIAL GALLERY & EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHER We are so thrilled to have an official harwood photographer for our galleries program this year! We are able to resource artists paid contracts thanks to the Urban Enhcnacement Trustfund, New Mexico Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the McCune Foundation.

Aziza Murray is a New Mexico based artist working primarily in photography. In 2015 she graduated with an MFA from the University of New Mexico where she also worked as a pictorial archiving fellow for the Center for Southwest Research. Since then, Aziza has worked in different capacities in the film industry in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, further piquing her interest in cinematography. Much of her work stems from a well of nostalgia for objects and moments, the materiality of photography, and her personal history—from experiencing tragic loss at an early age, to her multilayered experiences as a biracial person growing up in Washington, DC. She has shown her work in DC at Connersmith and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Albuquerque at the Harwood Art Center, the UNM Art Museum and the National Hispanic Cultural Center and, at MASS Gallery in Austin, TX. azizamurray.com azizamurray@gmail.com

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