Eve Biddle's "Field Notes" Opens at the Tremaine Gallery
The Wassaic Project co-founder brings snake imagery and archaeological symbolism to a solo show at Hotchkiss, with an artist talk and reception later this month
September 2–October 18, artist talk Thursday, September 17, 7–7:45pm, reception Saturday, September 19, 4–6pm | Lakeville, CT
The Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School presents "Field Notes," a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Eve Biddle, curated by Terri Moore. The show draws on the symbolism of snakes as signs of life and fertility alongside the presence of archaeological artifacts, following what Biddle describes as a meandering path.
Biddle, born in 1982, works across object-making, printmaking, curation, and collaborative culture-building, and co-founded the Wassaic Project, the contemporary arts institution in nearby Wassaic, New York. She's collaborated with and shown at MASS MoCA, Art Omi, Bard College, Columbia University, Parsons, the School of Visual Arts, RISD, and Storm King, with work exhibited at the Museum of Arts & Design, the Williams College Museum of Art, and Sargent's Daughters in New York. She lives and works between Wassaic and New York City.
Art critic Glenn Adamson has described Biddle's iconography as hermetic—serpents, pods, relics, bone —with a palette that tends toward the saturnine, though he notes that initial appearances can be deceiving: the work, he writes, "positively pulses with life." He points to the snake specifically as an ancient emblem of life and eternity, embodying cycles of renewal and transformation that run through the whole show.
Tremaine Gallery, 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT. Tuesday–Saturday 10am–4pm, Sunday noon–4pm, closed Mondays. More at hotchkiss.org/arts.
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