Fine Words Butter No Parsnips However Fine Parsnips Can Butter Words

Mauricio Alejo

Octavio Abundez

Rachelle Bussieres

Reiko Hamano

Dave Hardy

Julio César Morales

José Luis Córtes Santander

Abelardo Cruz-Santiago

Birgit Rathsmann

Gabriel Rico

Keith Allyn Spencer

Theresa Sterner

Zach Trow

Jess Willa Wheaton

Letha Wilson

Co-organized with Alejandro Almanza Pereda

Fine Words Butter No Parsnips However Fine Parsnips Can Butter Words is a group exhibition featuring national and international artists working in sculpture, installation, photography and mixed media. Conceived as a selection of artists that are both influential to Almanza Pereda’s neo-Arte Povera practice and in conversation with Present Company’s curatorial program, the fifteen artists in the exhibition signify a loose community of practitioners working with humble materials to guide ideas to fantastical ends. Fine words butter no parsnips however fine parsnips can butter words also aptly suggests that the artist’s intrinsic role in pushing the limitations of what forms and images can do, often imploding and upending them, is a language more translatable than words and concepts alone.