Ashley Carter - Jane Fox Hipple - Hannah Levy - Jessica Sanders


Opening Reception: September 2nd, 2016 | 7-10 PM

On view through September 24th

MOUNTAIN is pleased to present the gallery’s first show of the Fall season, Rare Form. This group exhibition brings together a collection of new and recent sculptural works by four artists with distinctive abstract sensibilities. Elevating the everyday to a level of peculiarity and curiosity, these artists use material as a vehicle for alchemy. Sculpture is a practice of transformation, not simply a final product or series of static objects. Sculpture is process, context, ontology and experience folded in on itself.

Jane Fox Hipple and Jessica Sanders create works that are abstract yet embedded with personal histories. Sanders’ sculptures are created from beeswax recycled throughout the lifecycle of her studio process. Hipple’s rustic and worn sculptures are vulnerable portraits disguised as found object assemblage. Ashley Carter and Hannah Levy create objects built from industrial materials and cast silicone. Levy’s sculptures invoke a cronenbergian composite of clinical office furniture and bodily appendages. Carter’s sculptures of rebar, steel, and pigmented rubber are reminiscent of the unidentifiable fragments found sifting through the wreckage after a natural disaster. The works in this exhibition are unified in their unsettling anthropomorphic essence. Forms that are not human, but ghostly in their familiarity and their rarity.