Kristen Egan // Still Coming Ashore
group show

August 3rd - 25th, 2018

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“I imagine most of the sculptures as allegorical or totemic figures, representing ideas about evolution and life cycles and the nature of the universe, which I struggle to articulate. Several of the pieces in this show play with the concept of life from death. That life must devour life to continue living, and that matter and energy continuously cycle between forms. Or, to quote Loren Eiseley, “We are one of the many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.”  

On August 3rd, Arch Enemy presents Still Coming Ashore, the largest collection to date of sculptures from artist Kristen Egan.

Representing the newest stage in the evolution of her unique gourd and mixed media technique, Still Coming Ashore is both a metaphor for Kristen’s ongoing journey as an artist trying to strengthen her creative voice, and a reflection of a technique she began developing almost 12 years ago, heavily rooted in the use of natural materials like gourds, sticks, and shells. She sees these materials, especially gourds, as having a crucial and ancient connection to human arts and culture.

Each piece is unique, spontaneous, thoughtful, and playful, and each born out of a vague idea and then shaped and inspired by characters from mythology and folklore. The process is represented in the title itself, a recurring line in an essay by Loren Eiseley, which alludes to the continuous process of evolution; life is constantly changing and adapting and has no fixed or final forms. We are the current phase, not the apex.

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