Michelle Carla Handel talk at Five Car Garage

Michelle Carla Handel will conduct an informal talk about her show RUBBER MIRROR and specifically her process and materials on Wednesday, July 28th at 2PM. RSVP for the event here.

RUBBER MIRROR, Michelle Carla Handel’s first solo exhibition at Five Car Garage, presents paintings and objects that work within the edges of body and thing, architecture and theater. Reflexive gestures and materiality hint at layered meanings, jogging something familiar or stirring up vague recollections — a word that’s on the tip of the tongue, a half-remembered dream upon waking, something out of the corner of your eye.

Testing the limits of spatial and material perception with ceramic, rubber, textiles and photography, Handel’s soft and hard forms disrupt notions of the certain and nameable. Ceramic paintings push and pull with pattern and color, flattening out into painterly abstraction in some areas and wildly protruding a sculptural presence in others. Evocations, abbreviations and shortcuts close the distance between body and thing, bouncing between them in an infinite regression.