Charis Ammon: U n q u i e t

December 1 - 16, 2020

"My work has a quiet anxiety or energetic stillness.
While there is no action existing in the work, a tense energy remains by something left behind"
Charis Ammon: Inheritance

The Old Jail Art Center

September 12, 2020 - January 30, 2021.

EXHIBITION CHECKLIST
Charis Ammon recognizes that she inherited a paved world. In her acceptance of this world she strives to discern beauty in this "concrete quilt" of a constructed environment. Based on her observations, her intimate paintings serve as more than just documentation of cracked or upheaved concrete, piles of debris, and records of never-ending repair.

Patrick Kelly, OJAC Executive Director and Curator

Press Release
"the quilt pieces Are a soft blanket with an image of concrete. There’s a splicing of worlds there. Blankets evoke rest, quiet, and intimacy while roads evoke traffic noise, urban environment, avoiding cars, etc. "
"On my long bike rides, the concrete became many things while I passed construction sites, avoided pot holes, saw tent cities of homeless communities, but barely any pedestrians.

Concrete started to become a privilege and a problem in my mind. I began considering the city as a concrete quilt, a blanketed area of earth".

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"The works capture snapshots of a city

Scenes that are familiar but not specific to a time or place"

Brandon Zech, Glasstire, April 14, 2018
"With common objects and surfaces, there’s room for a collective experience. We all engage with these spaces. We all carry a story, and these everyday spaces hold those stories as we hold those spaces"

Charis Ammon