Routinely, an exhibition currently at Box13, examines place and context as artists, Sarah Ott, Erin Miller, and Kendall Bradley, investigate ‘home’ though the rendering of individualized objects as well as rituals and routines embedded in tradition. Memory and observation serve as grounding points for the artists, recalling their surroundings through various media. Collectively, the work seen in Routinely serves as tokens of familiarity, sentimentality, and of home.
In Ott’s drawings, moments of seemingly small importance are granted individualized attention; familiar objects and images are often drawn as if suspended in their environment, framed for focusing the viewer’s attention on small details or minutia.
While Miller directly borrows imagery from her late grandmother’s archival insurance photographs for screen-printed compositions. Aiming to “fill in the blanks” of visual information lost through the scanning, cropping, and re-enlarging of these images, she hand draws elements, sourced from memory, and adds to the compositions, simultaneously flattening and creating depth.
Examining memory and place through travel and dislocation, Bradley strives as an artist/researcher to understand her role as both visitor and resident. Memories of place become skewed over time, often creating new environments through generalizing/summarizing/repeating aspects such as pattern and color.
Kendall Bradley is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art and a Bachelor of Arts in Design. At UT, she has worked closely with visiting artists in the Guest Artist in Print Program and holds positions as both an Undergraduate Risograph Fellow and Art Lab proctor. Bradley has participated in many local group shows, including Two Christmases and a Half-Birthday at the Visual Arts Center, which she co-curated alongside 3 other participating artists and the Center Space Project. Bradley has been awarded the Marshall F. Wells Scholarship and Fellowship Endowment (Oxbow School of Art Residency, 2015), and has most recently received funding for the Atravesarte University Study Trip (Mexico City, 2017).
Erin Miller (BFA in Studio Art at UT Austin 2016) co-founded and directed The Mom Gallery, which produced 13 exhibitions featuring 31 national and international emerging artists. Miller has participated in many group exhibitions both locally and nationally, most recently including Collective Pulse at the Galveston Arts Center in 2017 and a solo exhibition of drawings at Bass Concert Hall in 2016. Miller is currently an artist member at Burning Bones Press in Houston.
Sarah Ott (BA in Studio Art at UT Austin 2015) helped co-found The Mom Gallery, producing multiple exhibits featuring emerging artists of varying backgrounds. Sarah has exhibited work in Austin and New York and currently works and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
The exhibition is on view from November 18, 2017 – January 13, 2018.