Afield
Linnea Ryshke

September 6 - October 19, 2024
Opening Reception September 6, 5-8pm

Afield is a multi-media project, consisting of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and poetry, that centers on the complexities of the relationship between humans and animals. The exhibition serves as an archive and artifact of Ryshke’s artistic, multi-species ethnographic research in 2022, at four specific sites of human-animal interaction in Sweden. The works are all created from sketches, writings, and memories of her embodied experiences at these sites. Utilizing the evocative power of ambiguity in representation, the body of work navigates and gives form to “a field”– the space of moral in-betweenness that Rumi describes in the above poem. Through minimalist aesthetics and visual dissonance, Afield creates a contemplative space for viewers to engage with questions, rather than answers, about what it means to care for and care about the lives of other animals through proximity and distance. 

About the Artist

Linnea Ryshke creates paintings, drawings, artist books, installations, and poetry that seek to restore the value of nonhuman animals as kindred beings worthy of our adoration, respect, and empathy. She received her B.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute and M.F.A. in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been exhibited nationally, and she released her first book, Kindling, with Lantern Publishing and Media in the fall of 2021. She founded the artist collective, More than Human, and is currently working on a project based on multi-species ethnographic research begun in 2022.

https://www.reembodimentproject.com/
@linnea_ryske

Events & exhibitions at the Foundry Art Centre are free and open to the public. For more information, please email Jessica Mannisi, Director of Art & Exhibitions, at jmannisi@foundryartcentre.org