Exhibition Opening Reception for Kerry Phillips: Between the Mundane & the Miraculous

Photography by Alejandro Chavarria on August 20th, 2023 in Lifestyle

Miami, FL – August 17, 2023 – Announcing the latest exhibition at The Bass, Kerry Phillips: Between the mundane and the miraculous from August 17 to October 22, 2023. The exhibition of newly commissioned work represents a career milestone as the Miami-based artist’s first solo museum exhibition. Between the mundane and the miraculous explores the precarious intersections of materials from the natural to the manufactured-that define humanity’s ongoing negotiations with industrialization, technology, the environment, and material culture.

For her exhibition at The Bass, Phillips will construct a large-scale, site-specific enveloping sculptural installation using myriad materials including dressers, lamps, jars, the contents of junk drawers, fabric and scavenged objects by the truckload. Central to the installation will be a landscape of salvaged carpet arranged into compositions on the walls and placed onto the floor. The floor will have a mound of carpet piled high-to visitors’ eye level-with edges revealing the stratified layers beneath, composed of parts of dressers, lamps, old televisions and other appliances, jars, fabrics and yarn, table leaves, cushions, extension cords, and more.

Phillips’ large-scale, sculptural and architectural creations are known for making do with scavenged or already-owned materials and using common objects in unexpected ways. The artist has a deep fascination with her own families’ and others’ domestic spaces and materials and as such, her work with found objects is intuitive and steeped in remembrance and storytelling.