Dreamsong

Dreamsong is pleased to announce Reunion, the gallery’s third solo exhibition with California-born, St. Paul-based artist Kristen Sanders. Continuing her ongoing exploration of life’s primordial origins, Sanders traces the evolution of biological consciousness in moonlit paintings of fossils, seashells, skulls and other remnants of life’s presence. The exhibition also marks the artist's inaugural foray into ceramic sculpture. Lending dimensionality to her paintings’ frequently aqueous environments, sinuous kelp fronds, limpets and tendrils of seaweed are glazed in seafoam green, maple red and sandy brown. Inspired in part by the discovery of one of her late uncle’s paintings on eBay earlier this year, Reunion charts the lineages that bind us to our ancestors and the natural world, constructing a unique cosmology drawn from relics of ecological and evolutionary history.

Taking Arakawa + Gins concept of Reversible Destiny as a prompt for an exhibition at Dreamsong, we invited artists to make and present works that play with the limits of everyday functional design and apparel. Cognizant of the influence of our lived environments on our collective consciousness, the exhibition challenges the homogeneity, grayscaling and mass-produced automatizations of the built environment and fast fashion, embracing bold color and labor-intensive craft.