DREAM JUNK & COSMIC DUST

Gloria’s and Paradice Palase are pleased to co-present Dream Junk & Cosmic Dust, a group show featuring work by eleven artists from the Paradice Palase membership network. The exhibition includes small- and large-scale paintings and drawings, as well as hanging fiber sculpture, video installation, clay wall sculptures, and mixed material forms. This show is the first of two in a two-month presentation, collectively produced by twenty-two Paradice Palase members.

ARTISTS

Amelia Biewald
Caroline Cloutier
Jacob Hicks
Ruth Jeyaveeran
Katie Kotler
Helena La Rota López
Agustina Markez
Mike McGuire
Sonia Redfern
Kat Ryals
Mallory Concetta Smith

CURATORIAL PANEL

Katie Kotler
Helena La Rota López
Agustina Markez
Mike McGuire
Mallory Concetta Smith

PRESS RELEASE EXCERPT
by Augustina Markez & Mike McGuire

Dream Junk & Cosmic Dust dwells in the murky territory of unfinished business and inner shadows. It asks: what haunts us, and why do we take pleasure in the haunting? The exhibition embraces the ephemeral and the cosmic, the mystical and the consumerist cycle, surfacing symbols and traces from other dimensions, mythologies, and personal memories. United by an intuitive resonance, the works weave a complex, haunting atmosphere — one that seduces even as it unsettles. Whether it’s the shell of an object, the echo of a past life, or the orbit of a discarded thing we can’t quite let go, these works hold space for the experiences that pass through us, forming a mythology of daily life; a visual spell cast from the tension between decay and transcendence. It is in this space, where matter and meaning shift, that Dream Junk & Cosmic Dust invites us to linger. A space both familiar and unknowable, where we are all, in some way, delightfully haunted.