Jodie Cavalier: Strange Overtones
PPSTMM is humbled by the privileges to share with its audience a group of new works from the sculptor Jodie Cavalier. Join us for conversation and refreshments March 7th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm for an opening reception.
Grouped under one roof and from the ceiling, Strange Overtones is composed of a set of new mobile sculptures. The works continue Cavalier’s obsession with the discarded or ignored ubiquitous materials that one passes in their everyday, either in their own personal spaces or in the wild. Long ago, her observational mind connected the aesthetically rich finds from the street or forest with family heirlooms and keepsakes. Over the years, Cavalier’s relationship to the found and the passed down have merged as her sculptures dovetails the humanness of life with the objects that surround us. Her reverence for these materials is clear in her handling and arrangements of them, delicately finding a balance between the fetishization of something and simply discovering delight in a thing. The works of Strange Overtones possess many potentials, sensorially and conceptually. Grouped as a cloud above one’s head, they morph from kinetic to static, audible to silent, discarded to venerated. Like sky gazing and calling out the shapes of the cirrus and cumulus, Cavalier’s arrangements in air shift over time with a growing multiplex of analyses and affect in the process.
Gallery hours:
Mar 7, 6pm – 8pm – opening event
Mar 9, 10am – 2pm
Mar 22, 10am – 2pm
Apr 6, 10am – 2pm
April 20, 11am closing event.
More hours will be posted on Instagram throughout the run.
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BIO:
Jodie Cavalier is a conceptual artist living in Portland, OR. She earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. Her work has been exhibited with Converge 45’s Portland’s Monuments & Memorials Project in Portland, OR; the Schneider Museum in Ashland, OR; the deYoung Museum in San Francisco, CA; the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA; CoCA in Seattle, WA; Practice in New York; and Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany, among others. Cavalier has participated in residencies such as ONCA in Brighton, England; the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, UT; Wassaic in Wassaic, NY; and AZ West in Joshua Tree, CA.