Hours: Wednesdays – Fridays, 12-7pm, Saturdays, 12-5pm

Please join us for the opening event and artist lecture for Trace Extractions, on Friday, January 19, 2023 at Paragon Arts Gallery, Cascade Campus. The gallery will open at 5pm with a 45-minute gallery talk at 6pm, during which the artists will discuss their works within the exhibition.

Exhibition Statement:

Home is a destination, a refuge, a place of respite and inviolability. Hegemonic roles of women have historically placed them as responsible for daily acts related to domesticity — cooking, cleaning, laundry, kin-keeping, and more — this is Invisible Labor. This exhibition holds space for collective autobiographical narratives during the pandemic, how “home” changed. Exhibiting artists Stephanie Serpick, Victoria Smits, Stefani Byrd document these experiences through modern technology and traditional materials including intimate reflections in oil on panel, records of GPS tracking etched into acrylic, and scanning technology and digital photographic prints. The artists each employ a decidedly feminist lens in framing the experiences of the pandemic through how it disproportionately affected the lives of women

Serpick’s paintings of windows and bedding connote extraction from the outside world; they are devoid of human presence while intensifying awareness of grief, solitude and healing.

Smits’ etched acrylic GPS records of invisible labor document exertion and dysregulation of domestic acts historically falling on the shoulders of mothers, made more acute during the pandemic.

Byrd uses LIDAR tools to archive the commonplace while exploring stasis during a global crisis, abstracting and recording the formal qualities of space and volume, as well as absence and presence.