Em Kettner and Jessie Mott

Talisman

November 4 - December 3
Opening Reception: Friday November 4, 7PM-10PM

Jessica Campbell
on the work of Em Kettner and Jessie Mott

"The word talisman implies an object of religious or spiritual significance, a charm, good luck. It implies specialness. And certainly, these works evoke those notions. However, they also equally occupy the space of the quotidian, of the objects that construct our lives. They remind us simultaneously of the ancient ceramics in the Art Institute and of a dollar store ceramic clown mask cherished by a child only to grow dusty over time and get boxed up and relegated to the basement, awaiting a future rediscovery that may never come..." More

Tailbone

new collaborative artist book by Kettner and Mott will be released November 4. 

Pre-order your copy here!

Em Kettner (b. 1988) is an artist and writer from Philadelphia, PA. Her recent work, miniature tapestries woven onto glazed ceramic creatures, refers to the mythologizing of disabled bodies as animals or monsters, and considers how coverings (masks, casts, armor, animal skins) both embrace and challenge these allusions. Kettner received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has since taught there in the Painting and Drawing, Liberal Arts, and Contemporary Practices departments.

Jessie Mott (b. 1980, New York) is a visual artist whose work employs a menagerie of human, animal and celestial forms. Mott’s collaborative animations with the artist and writer Steve Reinke have been screened at national and international venues.  Her drawings were featured in Reinke’s video program in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Mott received an MFA in the department of Art Theory & Practice from Northwestern University in 2009 and a BFA from New York University in 2002.