This Too Shall Pass
works by Rebecca Beachy, N. Masani Landfair, and Nancy Valladares
curated by Joshi Radin Flores
The experience of time has ruptured in ways large and small. From the shared temporal limbo of the past two years to the passing of accustomed norms and expectations for the future, we are poignantly reminded of the precarity and temporariness of current conditions. Through their works, the artists in This Too Shall Pass address cycles of materiality as processes that reclaim, restore, regenerate, reconstitute and reconfigure.
Ralph Arnold Gallery, Loyola University – Chicago
March 18 – April 14, 2022
Exhibition Catalogue
pictured below*
sewn line : Ralph Arnold Gallery floor-crack tracing, “In no time” exhibition, 2018 - white cotton thread, transparency film (2022)
ceiling tile (displacement): multiple birds’ nests, wet and compressed (2022)
ceiling tile (removal): mineral fiber ceiling tile removed from Ralph Arnold Gallery (2022)
owl refuse / sorting table, (2022)
reclaimed architectural glass
whole and disassembled owl pellets (undigestible masses regurgitated by owls): raptor refuge (Colorado), home attic (Worpswede, Germany), suburban parking lot (Colorado), farmhouse (Colorado) domestic park (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), etc.
copper-gilded rodent bones – unburned (2021-2022)
bio-charred owl pellets/rodent bones (2019-2020)
cremated rodent bones (2022)
timeline (table, 2022)
mineral fiber ceiling tiles
Ralph Arnold floor crack tracings, 2018: tracing paper, pencil
sewing pins, sewn tracings (Ralph Arnold Gallery floor crack, “In no time” exhibition, 2018): white cotton thread, transparency film
copper-gilded rock, avian bones (Colorado/Wisconsin/Chicago, 2021-2022)
deer-consumed clay, red-earth scat - fired (Black Hills, South Dakota, 2018), copper foil
rusted muffler shards (Chicago, 2020)
aspen tree eyes, copper gilded, (Colorado, 2012, 2022)
water-eroded asphalt stones (Lake Michigan, Chicago, 2020)
copper-gilded river shale (Madison County, Iowa, 2018)
architectural window shatter, compost (1999, 2008)
magnifying lens, magnesium shavings, match sticks (2018)
copper foil cones (2020)
Perch #1: tree stump, copper gilt, charred avian bones (Madison County, Iowa, 2018)
Perch #2: decomposing tree segments, copper gilt (screech owl site - Morgan County, Ohio, 2015)
Perch #3: burned shelf, compressed birds’ nests (Madison County, Iowa, 2018)
