Ground Cover
Exhibition Dates: July 12 - August 10, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, July 12, from 6 - 9 pm
Artist’s Talk: Saturday, July 13, from 12 - 1 pm
About
Throughline is pleased to present its third two-person collective member exhibition, “Ground Cover,” featuring new sculptural and photographic works by artists Carolina Borja and Angela Chen, opening Friday, July 12, 2024, at 3909 Main Street, Houston, TX 77004. A reception will be held from 6 to 9pm the same evening.
Carolina Borja’s sculpture explores the materiality of objects that confront each other, yet exist in the same space, in her series, Breaking Point. Inspired by day-to-day interactions between the natural landscape and urban concrete foundations, Borja proposes that notions of vulnerability and strength are synonyms, rather than opposing concepts, offering metaphors for relationships, while commenting on Houston’s growing landscape. Breaking Point is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
Carolina was born in San Diego, California, and raised in Mexico City. Borja studied Industrial Design with a minor in Mexican Folk Art and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. Her work intersects sculpture with public art, reflecting on topics such as urban mobility, growth and cross-culture.
Angela Chen’s newest photo–object assemblages reflect what she terms the aesthetics of immigrant resourcefulness. Incorporating floor screens purchased from Facebook Marketplace, photographs from personal archives, and collaged photo-text-textiles printed on recycled and naturally-dyed fabric, her hybrid objects propose how a predisposition toward thrift and repurposing can create new visual grammars that help us imagine new relationships to place, and a more sustainable future.
Angela Chen 陳勇氣 (she/her) is a Taiwanese-American photo-based artist, writer, and educator from the ethno-burbs of the San Gabriel Valley, California. Using assemblage as a metaphor for diasporic identity- and world-building, her work incorporates personal narrative; interdisciplinary approaches to photographic processes; recycled and foraged material; and everyday detritus.
Scheduled Programs:
Artist Talk: Saturday, July 13th, 12 - 1pm
Cocktail Hour: Saturday, July 27, 4-6pm
Workshop: Saturday, August 10, 12-1pm
Exhibition Dates: June 7 - June 29, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, June 7th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays & Saturdays, 12-6pm
*For private appointments email: throughlinecollective@gmail.com
