Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to present Post Liminal, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Chrissy Angliker. The exhibition will be on view from September 7th through October 19th. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 7th from 6-8 pm. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. For press inquiries please email hayley@masseyklein.com.
The ripples slice the mirror,
Opening the void of duality.
In still waters it takes one drip to remember.
Whole worlds appear to hold.
Walls as solid as light,
Flickering within its foundation,
The wind carries them like leaves to their future.
Arrival and leaving,
Rubbing like twigs,
Creating that warmth
Found in here.
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“This being human is a guest house,” Rumi told us centuries ago. “Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.”
Over the past year and a half, I have encountered many unexpected visitors. The loss of a dear loved one catalyzed the sale of her building, which housed my sacred art studio for 14 years. In a way that felt synchronized, the building where I lived sold soon after. During the pandemic’s epilogue, the New York I had known felt as if it was untethering itself from me; and with so many foundations convulsing below, the fragility of sanctuary and illusion of permanence became my fixation.
We meet here in the Post Liminal, where much has transpired in rapid succession. The pace was so swift that at times all that was left to capture from each place was a thing on the cusp of change, a moment heated to its limit by transition, a flash of stillness amidst turmoil.
My sanctuaries were destinations: my native Switzerland; the homes I’ve moved to and from in Brooklyn; my new studio; and Casa de Nada, an artist residency in Taos, New Mexico. And as the cut flowers bravely bloom to their wilt within their temporary homes, I know I am them.
A known mirage is a gift. We swim, confronting our reflections in the waters, bathing inside the fragile mirrors of the structures we’ve built and cling to still. I grasped at the ripples hoping I could dive beneath the tenuousness of truth.
In my collaborative dialogue with paint, I have always aimed to disentangle the medium from the illusory image. And here, I endeavor to explore the fallacy of permanence, the fleeting nature of all things, and to pause in that liminal glow.
-Chrissy Angliker