On View:
September 4th - September 25th
Opening reception September 4th, 6-8pm
Molly Burt-Westvig’s paintings represent an epistemological shift of our time: the recognition that knowledge and perception are never neutral but always shaped by context and power. Rather than beginning with the promise of a blank canvas, her paintings begin in the middle like being caught between scenes or in the middle of a sentence. She creates her ground from photographic images printed on translucent textiles which she sews into heavy linen to create an ambient ground rather than a flat surface, activating the space between the painting and wall. The seams and qualities of the materials impose their own architecture and a set of constraints. Within these limits, Burt-Westvig finds a capacious space for improvisation. Imagery emerges–sometimes tender, sometimes uncanny–only to dissolve into a blur or a sweeping stroke. The paintings are constructed from unruly constellations of digital detritus—she prints rolls of fabric at once and then sorts through the images, which are themselves strange and unreliable records: cropped, blurry, and suggestive. The photographic fragments suggest not only archival impulses but also the fugitive play of light across time: dusk, neon, the glare of a passing car. In these works, illumination becomes narrative, signaling lost hours or revealing a scene, making each work feel in motion like clips of film from the same movie.
About
Flow Space was created from a deep love for the arts and a commitment to community.
More than a gallery, Flow Space is a community-rooted art space, dedicated to showcasing the powerful, personal, and political works of artists who may exist outside traditional structures of recognition, self-taught visionaries, and those forging paths on their terms. With a particular focus on supporting women-identifying and LGBTQIA+ artists, Flow Space seeks to make room for those too often overlooked and to affirm the importance of their voices.
Flow Space extends beyond the confines of visual art, aiming to be a platform for lived experience, storytelling, and unapologetic self-expression in all its forms. Here, there is no expectation to explain or conform. We believe in art without censorship, identity without compromise, and community without judgment.
A Wild Pack of Dogs - Jamie M Moore
