Palimpsest

Rhys Bambrick Ellen Harvey Tenaya Izu Gloria Maximo Elise R. Peterson Tyler Rowland Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik

6Month Space is proud to present Palimpsest, a multimedia group exhibition, on view Wednesdays 7pm to 9pm and by appointment through November 2nd.

Palimpsest- “A surface reused or altered but bearing visible traces of its earlier form(s).”

This diverse group of artists is united by an occupational obsession with art history and a shared desire to locate themselves within the timeline of creative production. They realize their immediate environment is littered with the relics of their predecessors and share a desire to start discussions that acknowledge and challenge existing material traditions, processes, and systems of meaning-making Artifacts, images, painting, textiles, and symbols present themselves as foundational examples from which we can learn to shape our culture. In Palimpsest, each of these classical constructs is repurposed as a substrate onto which contemporary and personal meanings are written. Retouched and reworked by these artists’ hands, their objects embody a layering effect.

The resulting works contain both these historical frameworks and the ideologies specific to the artist’s time and experience. Rather than a desire to erase or sweep away, the artists choose instead to put this process of rewriting on display in order to illuminate their unique relationship with the canon, and their place within or exclusion from it. While (art) history preferences certain voices (those of the victors), Palimpsest aims to display a more inclusive and complex picture of the multiplicitous nature of contemporary existence.