Exquisite Variants- OVERLAP
Individually, Maggie Nowinski and Alicia Renadette’s art-making practices are informed by observations and images of growth and decay of botanical, geological, and animalistic systems and structures. Together, they create collaborative, site-specific, mixed-media installations and drawings that explore themes of origination, variance, and adaptation.
Nowinski’s black and white, pen and ink, drawings are laborious renderings that often include writhing masses of muscle tissue, cellular matter, disintegrated skeletal fragments, wriggling vascular tendrils and sprouting leaves, while Renadette's sculptures, made from entangled consumer and domestic detritus, are vibrant maximalist compositions that resemble familiar, yet strange ecosystems, overgrown gardens, and nests for imaginary creatures.
In Exquisite Variants, they interweave aspects of their disparate approaches and create surprisingly confluent composite forms that respond to their curiosity about growth and transformation in the natural world they inhabit and observe, as well as the mysterious realms of interior landscapes they intuitively experience.