Molly Evans and Mark Carman, Buckle Up and Get Ready to Expand, Cotton, Arduino Kinetic Motion, Cycles of Effort, 78 x 72 x 8 inches, $6,500
Molly Evans, Hang In There, We Got This, Cotton, Foam, The window of time after hanging one’s head in defeat but before finding the strength and resolve to move forward anyways. You’re down, but not out. Fuck’em, 20 x 14 x 12 inches, $750
Molly Evans, In This Fire and Rebirth, You Have Opportunity, Cotton, Submersion Dyes, Found Needlework from Deceased Grandmother of Illustrator Alli Arnold, 144 x120 inches, $8,500
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Molly Evans, Work To Calm [Fear], Ceramic, Steel, Layers and Efforts, 50 x 36 x 10.5 inches, $2,200
Molly Evans, The Outrageousness, Ceramic, Aluminum, High Highs and Low Lows, 12 x 17 x 10 inches, $600
Molly Evans, Teen’s Letter, Ceramic, Aluminum, Sonnet Written to Wade Jenkins at age 10 x 12 x 7.5 inches, $600
Molly Evans, The Last Of The Men, Ceramic, Aluminum, Fading/Shorted Out Neon of Stereotyped Masculinity, 7 x 24 x 17 inches, SOLD
Molly Evans, The Deceit, Ceramic, Aluminum, 96 Episodes of Scandal, 7 x 25 x 8 inches, $600
Molly Evans, Enthusiasm for Getting, Ceramic, Aluminum, the Gift of Opportunity, 7 x 21 x 8.5, $600
Molly Evans, The Feelings Of People Who See, Cotton, Trapunto, the Exhaustion of Empathy, 41 x 46 x 3 inches, $2,400
Molly Evans, Scorched and Sparse, Steel, Felt Remains, 43 x 46 x 14 inches, $1,100
Molly Evans, She Faced a Felony Over a VHS Tape, Ceramic, Steel, Broken Justice System, 31 x 28 x 9.5 inches, $2,200
Molly Evans, Say What You Mean, and Then Wait (Advice from Bert of Bert’s Chili), Hand-dyed Bedding, Cotton, Foam, Invaluable advice handed down to me from a Waffle House Heiress’ grandfather while we both worked a shitty retail job, 72 x 48 x 54 inches
MOLLY EVANS PEEL
One year of growth, challenge, exploration, grief, and joy; an overall examination of self, pace, and the scale of life’s activities.
Rid yourself of the layers that do not serve you:
Push your finger through the stratum over your face, allow your nail to sink deep into the layers, squish. Press, strain, tear, and stretch, stretch, stretch until a small break shows you light. Pull and allow the break in the lamination to spread across your brows, then your cheeks, then your mouth and gasp your new breath.
Steadily force your body through tight quarters, singular acts of defiance, one after another, and allow the abrasion of objection to stretch and tug the burdens off your back. Allow the force of the final, strained suction of your last toe’s liberation to push the air back into your lungs. Peel, breathe, live, repeat.
Peel is an exhibition exploring layers, core essence, and movement in fiber, ceramic, steel, and experimental quilt media. Evans continues her use of mattress forms as self-portrait, reinvestigating the scale, layers, and bellies that comprise her sculptures to poetic end.
Evans’ experimental quilts, soft sculptures, and participatory artworks use pliable materials to mimic physical gestures of emotional effort. Creating abstractions of the slumped shoulder, the wringing of hands, the exuberant expanded chest and a number of other postures appeals to the sense of storytelling that she explores in her work. Evans combines hard and soft materials to create a symbolic binary of factual and flexible memory. She uses the language of ubiquitous textiles, such as the mattress form or reclaimed and overdyed bedding, for their ability to convey intimate, personal contexts. These pliable materials have histories in their threads which are unique to each viewer who may recognize their textures and patterns. Elements of embroidery and telling titling highlight fragments of personal experience, stories which become universal by virtue of their humbling, human, and relatable references to expressions of vulnerability. Like a quilt made of many pieces, we are profoundly altered by the individual parts of our history, both large and small, that we experience daily. Textile media calls to artist Molly Evans for its ability to express the tactility of the everyday experience, thereby mirroring the variety of stories that we all live.