Stones Bones and Relics brings together a group of works that share a reflective gaze at the past. With a nod to the ancient world and broader questions of human origins; death, the after-world and the passing of time seem to be inadvertent subjects in many works where animal bones, bricks, hominid skulls and stone tools make an appearance.

Several works recall mystic practices of the past and attempts to channel ‘other-worldly’ forces. Other works focus more on the material world and utilize the language of nature as a springboard for further contemplation. Stone, silt, sediment and other artifacts and relics are at the same time physical elements in the world but also presuppose something outside their physicality, pointing to the immaterial, impermanent and invisible.

In Stones Bones and Relics, each artist undertakes his or her own investigation into the questions of art, the past and the natural world, producing results that are often dark, comical and puzzling. Including the works of:

Yevgeniya Baras
Rory Baron
Ginny Casey
Lee Lee Chan
Peter Hoffmeister
Cooper Holoweski
Amanda Lechner
Emilie Lemakis
Anna Mikhailovskaia
Mason Saltarrelli
Ellen Schneiderman
Matthew Schrader
StudioAND
Gabriella Szpunt
George Terry
Brett Day Windham
Audra Wolowiec

Curated by Anna Mikhailovskaia