Current Exhibition:
WITNESS MATERIAL
Christen Mattix, Kristen Roos, Helena Wadsley
October 19 – November 17, 2024
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 6 - 9pm
Bothkinds Project Space is pleased to announce Witness Material a sculptural exhibition that parners artists Christen Mattix, Kristen Roos and Helena Wadsley and examines materiality of place and purpose to tease notions of labour. By making visible the unseen, outmoded, traditional, and often inefficient, these artists’ works stand as a record and commitment to exploring lineage and connectivity. The soft sculptures are positioned in conversation that expands the roles of craft, history, and technology and how they can be communicated physically.
Christen Mattix
The daughter of a Lao/Thai interpreter and teacher, Christen Mattix was born in Seattle and raised in Thailand. This bicultural experience shaped her into a catalyst for community. Mattix received a BFA from Western Washington University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Mattix’s work has been shown extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest and she also authored Skein, a memoir about transforming a Bellingham neighborhood through a three-year fiber installation
Kristen Roos
is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose practice includes a wide range of mediums including electronic music composition, sound design, sound installation, radio and transmission art, animation, printmaking, textiles, and media archaeology. His textiles speak about obsolescence, and the relationship between computers and weaving. Jacquard Looms being one of the first computers, which were programmed and automated using punch cards.
This work is designed using vintage software for early personal computers, and uses traditional weaving patterns, and Jacquard weaving patterns from the 1800’s.
Helena Wadsley
is a Vancouver-based artist whose practice involves textiles, drawing, painting, and video. She has a BFA in Art History and MFA in Painting. Her work considers knowledge systems such as science and literature to identify entrenched attitudes about gender that marginalize the ‘other’ while using craft techniques as a way of drawing traditional women’s labour into the vernacular of contemporary art.
WITNESS MATERIAL
Christen Mattix, Kristen Roos, Helena Wadsley
October 19 – November 17, 2024
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 6 - 9pm
Bothkinds Project Space is pleased to announce Witness Material a sculptural exhibition that parners artists Christen Mattix, Kristen Roos and Helena Wadsley and examines materiality of place and purpose to tease notions of labour. By making visible the unseen, outmoded, traditional, and often inefficient, these artists’ works stand as a record and commitment to exploring lineage and connectivity. The soft sculptures are positioned in conversation that expands the roles of craft, history, and technology and how they can be communicated physically.
Christen Mattix
The daughter of a Lao/Thai interpreter and teacher, Christen Mattix was born in Seattle and raised in Thailand. This bicultural experience shaped her into a catalyst for community. Mattix received a BFA from Western Washington University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Mattix’s work has been shown extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest and she also authored Skein, a memoir about transforming a Bellingham neighborhood through a three-year fiber installation
Kristen Roos
is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose practice includes a wide range of mediums including electronic music composition, sound design, sound installation, radio and transmission art, animation, printmaking, textiles, and media archaeology. His textiles speak about obsolescence, and the relationship between computers and weaving. Jacquard Looms being one of the first computers, which were programmed and automated using punch cards.
This work is designed using vintage software for early personal computers, and uses traditional weaving patterns, and Jacquard weaving patterns from the 1800’s.
Helena Wadsley
is a Vancouver-based artist whose practice involves textiles, drawing, painting, and video. She has a BFA in Art History and MFA in Painting. Her work considers knowledge systems such as science and literature to identify entrenched attitudes about gender that marginalize the ‘other’ while using craft techniques as a way of drawing traditional women’s labour into the vernacular of contemporary art.
