Tanya Gill and Marcia Teusink
United States of America + United Kingdom
Tanya Gill and Marcia Teusink
Object Correspondence, 2020
Wall installation of various-sized objects
Mixed media
Tanya Gill and Marcia Teusink hold conversations in images and objects between their studios in Chicago and London, respectively. After noticing a shared interest in the idea of collapse, the artists began sending each other objects and materials by post to work with, as well as setting up a digital archive to share related images they found online or in print. The shared archive developed into a game of matching one image with another and seeing what meanings occur. While these digital conversations happen instantaneously, the physical materials and objects travel between their studios slowly and are responded to in solitude. In these quick and slow ways, Gill and Teusink work through their puzzlement and despair about the state of our suffering planet together.
Object Correspondence, a wall installation, comes out of the artists’ preoccupations with precarity and care, as they respond to each other’s offering of mended materials and misshapen forms. The tactile and irregular abstract forms speak to compromised or adaptive structures, acting as metaphors for the fragility and resilience of humans in the face of collapse and change.
detail images of Object Correspondace
Tanya Gill and Marcia Teusink
Stills from 50 Years Back and Forth, 2021
Video projection
34＂ x 34＂
Their video piece 50 Years Back and Forth explores half a century (the approximate age of the artists) of attempts to protect our environment by governments and citizens, as well as the many climate disasters and decline that continued to occur. The juxtaposed images point to the failure of a binary system of thinking and governing, as well as the importance of a continuity of collective intention and care in order to keep environmental policies and actions on the right course for our survival.
about the artists
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Tanya Gill works with ideas around societal constructs, collapse, and mending. Gill explores these ideas through the mediums of painting, drawing, moving images, and fiber-based works. Gill was a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow in New Delhi, India, in 2012. She has also been in residence at McDowell, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, and The Ragdale Foundation. She was honored to be an Affiliate at Headlands Center for the Arts and received an Individual Artist Grant from the Marin Arts Council. She graduated with a BFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned her MFA in painting at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Gill resides in Chicago, Illinois, where she is a Community Artist in Residence at Hyde Park Art Center through 2021.
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Marcia Teusink investigates themes of collapse and reconfiguration through painting, found objects, photography, and mixed media. Her work investigates the impact of neglect on our cities and structures, effects of climate change and extreme weather, and the natural consequences of time and weathering on objects. Teusink is interested in the political implications of collapse and restructuring, as well as the art historical, psychological, and spiritual ones. She holds a BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley, an MFA in Visual Arts from CUNY Queens College, and an MA in Museums and Galleries in Education from the Institute of Education, London, and has been artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute and The Morris Graves Foundation. She will be attending a MASS MoCA studio residency in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 2021. American-born, Teusink currently lives in London, United Kingdom.
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