Rooted in Transit: Nick Fagan & Lavaughan Jenkins: Nick Fagan | Lavaughan Jenkins (Boston, MA)

Opening Reception with Artists: Friday, March 1, 2024 from 6-8 PM
Artist Talk: Click To View Recording
450 Harrison Avenue #29, Boston, MA 02118

Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (Boston) is proud to present Rooted in Transit, a two-person exhibition featuring new artworks by Lavaughan Jenkins and introducing Nick Fagan. As a true painter, Lavaughan Jenkins will present his highly textured Love Portals series alongside multimedia artist Nick Fagan’s textile works, including a site-specific installation. For both artists, the works on view are form of self-expression in a deeply personal way. In Jenkins’ new series, the paintings are a record of certain moments in his past, 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 have 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 are heavily inform in their artistic practice through their own lived histories. The artists have spent several years 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.