Miscreant Matter Dual Exhibition

Miscreant Matter: Katherine Earle & Carol Paik
April 24 – May 22, 2022

Curated by Connie Lee

Can we capture all the discarded, rejected, degenerate, degraded and miscreant matter and repurpose it through these small acts of creation? What becomes of our environment when we cease to stratify matter into a tiered system of value and importance, and instead re-envision the disposable as a building block of the universe. If the trash we discard is made from matter just as we are, then what is the power of things?

In the consistent repair and reimagining of the castaway matter in our lives, we interrupt our learned habits of relegating some items to the status of nonessential. By engaging with these vibrant materials, we reimagine the hierarchization of our material world. Artists Carol Paik and Katherine Earle are both “redefining the human relationship with materials as communicative” as a method towards bringing us “closer to an ecological sensibility.”

This exhibition is co-presented by Art Lives Here and JVS Project Space

JVS Project Space
181 East 108th Street
East Harlem, NYC