Tender Material, a two-person exhibition featuring the multidisciplinary practices of Kim Garcia and Frannie Hemmelgarn, is an exploration of memory, grief, and repair through sculpture, works on paper, and mixed-media installation. The exhibition brings together resin, paper, and personal objects transformed into fragile yet enduring forms that reconcile loss, express longing, and attempt to remember, understand, and mend complicated relationships.
The artists begin with precious matter: family photographs both old and recent, daily scribbles, schedules, to-do lists, and fragments of poetry. Each carries the weight of their fathers’ lives: one father grasping for what drifts away, the other suddenly gone.
Garcia and Hemmelgarn treat these found and researched remnants as ingredients, subjecting them to acts of tracing and retracing, pressing and submerging, tearing, binding, weaving, and reweaving. Through these gestures, material becomes feeling; the past merges with the present.
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