SOCO Gallery is happy to announce the opening of Nonetheless Life at Dwelling, a solo exhibition of recent gouache on panel and gouache on paper works by artist Anne Buckwalter.
Nonetheless Life at Dwelling is a meditation on the small pleasures of rural life, and the intersection of domesticity, interiority, and erotic creativeness. The work deal with the rituals of home tasks and each day rural residing. Seasons change, as seen within the background of the compositions, however there’s a putting loyalty to the serenity of an inside world regardless of an ever-changing exterior one.
Dwelling in rural Maine, Buckwalter discovered that “within the undistracted stillness, there’s the invitation to obsess, to fantasize, to burrow inwards and see how deep you may go.” This physique of labor calls consideration to the artist’s close-looking at easy particulars blended with unexpectedly provocative material.
Strawberry Jam depicts a scene the place a steaming pot sits on the range beside a bowl of softened strawberries. On the shelf above, a nude statuette could be seen amongst mugs, a candle, and a patterned pitcher. “I see my work as a type of train in making what’s boring erotic, and what’s erotic boring,” says Buckwalter. Her childhood residence was filled with Pennsylvania Dutch folks artwork, ornamental crafts, painted furnishings, and textiles. These things convey her a way of consolation and discovering their method into her present residence and into her work, create a super surroundings for these juxtapositions to happen.
Buckwalter strives to create work the place viewers can comfortably have interaction with a probably uncomfortable topic. She is interested by normalizing intercourse and sexuality, appreciating it as a significant matter deserving of mental consideration, and de-sensationalizing it by situating the erotic throughout the context of the on a regular basis.
Figures usually are not all the time seen in her interiors, however when they’re, they’re cropped or proven by means of a door within the background of the work in a method that conceals their faces, and typically even their gender. Their actions, due to this fact, take priority. In Knees within the Moonlight, a pair’s legs are seen entangled in mattress whereas in Snowstorm Breakfast, a feminine determine nude from the waist down enjoys a meal of eggs, toast, and avocado as snow falls exterior.
Pretzel Day shows quite a lot of objects throughout a big kitchen that solely trace on the house owner’s actions. Whereas some gadgets are express, others make viewers query what’s and what’s not meant to be suggestive, attaining Buckwalter’s intention to blur the traces of sexuality and its notion.
