Inheritances

solo exhibition

Gallery 2
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
2025

Loose Handshake
Loose Handshake

“There are parts of [the sky] we are meant to connect.”
from “Family Camping Hall of Fame Allentown, New Hampshire”, John D’Agata

“If I look away I will find some
words that don’t belong to me, stolen, borrowed, or apprehended”

from “Fable of the Barn” Ann Lauterbach


Diffused Retrievals
Diffused Retrievals

Upward Mobility (Beanstalk)

Inheritances Statement

Despite a growing sense of futility, I still feel an atmospheric pull to try and tie the air back together, to weave something honest and grounding where I am.  As a global citizen, I’m disoriented.  As an artist, I’m fighting off becoming numb, endeavoring to confront the weight of distance through the litany of my sculptural practice. Works in Inheritancesare recent landings, results of my attempts to articulate tangles with expectation—the tensions, apathies, and melancholy lingering just below a surface of restraint.

These fixed collisions of tactile memory exist at the boundary of self and environment. They are product(s) of hand-me-down materiality: broken limbs, cracked foundations, décor of domesticity, and the language stitched into the seams of my history. In the white noise of my fingers, I’m stitching together fractured time. Time lost, time neglected, and time that may only be felt or dreamt as blue skies on the horizon

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Miscarriage


Reciprocal Nature (Collum)
Reciprocal Nature (Collum)

Banner
Notions

A Kind of Regardless (Silted Grey)




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(c) stacy Isenbarger 2025