a crack in the leak

curated by Ariel Wood
MASS Gallery
Sept. 14 - Oct. 19 

“A crack is an opening but also a failure of containment, a place where some things escape or where other things gather. The artists in this exhibition understand and explore the dual nature of the crack, the both/and of leakiness, the rhyming of water’s overflow of a container and a person’s overflow beyond categories of being just one thing or another: both a child and a parent, both a partner and an individual, both a giver and a taker. An inability to completely control water rhymes with the inability to control or hem in a person’s being, not to mention it brings attention to how hemming in does a disservice to our sense of self’s inherent seeking to expand, spread out, seek support from and among, seep, and permeate aspects of life … The works in this show point to the duality of the crack, of the leak, a moving beyond norms, a jump up out of the rut, and, if we come back to water, a confluence of things. Instead of isolation, separation, or partition, this exhibition suggests that, perhaps, reveling in the crack is safer than scrambling, against all else, to hold things together.”

Maggie Mitts

Artists: Mac Benson, Rachael Griffin, Luke Johnson, Melanie McLain, Tegan Moore, Libby Rosa, Adam Liam Rose, Ben Skiba, Owen Tuohy, and Ariel Wood

a crack in the leak, publication

An anthology of ooze, protection, and permeability accompanying the exhibition by the same name. Includes documentation images of the exhibition as well as original writings by Tamara Johnson, Emily Lee, Gabrielle Constantine, Melissa Fandos, Grace Sparapani, C. Rees, Zack Scholsberg, Robert Whitehead, and Sarah Matthes.

Copies still available, email arielrwood2@gmail.com for purchase.