Join Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (Boston) on March 2nd at 2:00 PM for an artist talk featuring Nick Fagan and Lavaughan Jenkins. Hosted by Abigail Ogilvy, the artists will discuss their current exhibition titled Rooted In Transit.
Date: Saturday, March 2nd from 2-3 PM
Location: Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue #29, Boston, MA 02118
Rooted in Transit is a two-person exhibition featuring new artworks by Lavaughan Jenkins and introducing Nick Fagan. A true painter, Lavaughan Jenkins will present his highly textured Love Portals series alongside multimedia artist Nick Fagan’s textile works and a site-specific installation. For both artists, the works on view are self-expression in a deeply personal way. In Jenkins’ new series, the paintings are a record of certain moments, a reminder of love lost – yet they allow the possibility to reconnect with the person or memory on the other side of the portal. For Fagan, the materiality of moving blankets holds a personal importance to the artist, allowing the found material to be given a second life. His material research reveals a deeper history of an otherwise common object, the stains and marks are physical traces of activity that charge the material with a record that transcends an individual person or a specific moment. Both Fagan and Jenkins lead lives that heavily inform their artistic practice, both having spent several years separately creating from one city to the next through residencies and personal moves. This sense of geographic temporality ultimately results in artworks that convey this complex relationship with movement both physically and through memory – yet grounding them in their artistic practice.
