Our second episode features a discussion on the exhibition “away to mend” with Artist/Curator Doug Welsh and Blaffer Art Museum Curator of Education Katherine Veneman.

We discuss the emotions and excitement surrounding the formulation, construction and approaching conclusion of the exhibition, which presents recent work by 19 Gulf Coast artists whose work engages relationships between abstraction and landscape, and whose practices connect art with processes ofhealing.

The exhibition features work by Isela Aguirre, Forrest Bess,Sebastien Boncy, Crasis (Andy P. Davis and Anne Lukins), Julie DeVries, Garrett Griffin, Stephanie Gonzalez, Shangyi Hua, Jonathan Paul Jackson, Terrell James, Emily Peacock, Mitch Pengra, Alexis Pye, Gerardo Rosales, JR Roykovich, EricSchnell, Adrienne Simmons and Benji Stiles.

The exhibition also includes analytic and poetic texts bywriters Clare Elliott, Sarah Fisher, Liz Gates, Adam Marnie, and Emma Timbers.