






PRESERVATION OF
FORGETTING AT
NEON HEATER GALLERY
PRESERVATION OF
FORGETTING AT
NEON HEATER GALLERY
The Town Between My Toes
2019
sand, wax, raw rigatoni and shell pasta, pleather, black food coloring, olives, carrots, olive pits, cotton string, resin, wire, wood, paint, rocks, teddy bears
size varies (6' tall)
Pea-n-Carrot Tree
2019
preserved peas, carrots, and peppers, gravestone dust, beads, rocks, sand, resin, paint, plastic, streamers, pleather, wood, string, mosaic tile
12x12x44"
FRILLS: GLORIES, EXCESS, AND GETTING WEIRD
Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2021-2022
Curated by Hannah Turpin and Dave Zak
Photography by Travis Mitzel
Artwork includes Tree Arch (2021) and Altar to Resurrect My Seven-Year Old Self (2017-2019)









This exhibition features ten artists whose work subverts common notions of extravagance by playing with the boundaries between frill and ordinary life. The artists' materials are sourced from intimate experiences and domestic spaces. Their references range from the overlooked aspects of homes and diaries to contemplative examinations of aging, identity, labor and capitalism. The banality of these objects is transformed through embellishment and getting weird, revealing new meanings and connections. These artists demonstrate frills as a necessary mode of human processing that allows for greater appreciation and rediscovery of the familiar forms, memories, and belongings that surround us. Artists include Andrew Allison, Anna Azizzy, Anny Chen, Crystal Latimer, Dyvika Peel, Imin Yeh, Nakeya Brown, Naomi Chamber, Saige Baxter, and Sidney Mullis. -Hannah Turpin and Dave Zak, Independent Curators