Turn Me Over

Turn Me Over is an exhibition of drawings and ceramic sculptures created by artists Molly Lecko Herro and Alim Ringgold. With a selection of ceramic-framed illustrations, sculptural vessels, and ceramic burial objects, abstract narratives emerge surrounding death as a way of revealing the body as a vessel and as a subsequent curiosity about the immaterial substance contained within bodies both animate and inanimate. Thinking of holes, cavities, vessels, and containers as innate and fundamental to humanity, this combination of works explores the relationship between the held and the holder, when bodies are containers and containers are extensions of the body. Herro’s sequential image works contain glowing visions of stony burial caverns and dream-like scenes which capture a sense of permeability and vastness within the body, held gently by plasmatic and winding hand-made frames. Drawing parallels to the presence of a granitic and subterranean feeling within Herro’s work, Ringgold constructs some semblance of a shadowy burial site and curious artifacts. Ceramic vessels warp and bubble, their contents churning in anticipation of a transference.