Tappeto Volante Projects proudly presents Natural Resilience, featuring paintings by Jared Deery and ceramics by Dini Dixon. This exhibition explores these artists' inherent capacity to respond to the unexpected nuances of their chosen mediums.

Jared Deery's vibrant still lifes, primarily depicting imaginary potted plants and flowers, transcend mere representation by imbuing narratives of transition and transformation. Through meticulous manipulation of color and texture, Deery blurs the boundaries between realism and imagination, eliciting wonder and introspection.

Color assumes a pivotal role in Deery's artistic methodology, influencing his compositional decisions and emotional response to the painting process. It serves not only as a visual element but also as a tactile experience that shapes the viewer's sensory perception. His idiosyncratic approach allows color to symbolically deconstruct and reconstruct elements, embodying the artist's engagement with his craft.

Dini Dixon's ceramics provide a complementary exploration of resilience, reflecting an intuitive balance between fragility and strength reminiscent of nature's adaptive qualities. Her work celebrates nature's malleability, illustrating how flora and environments adapt to climatic changes and other challenges. Similarly, Dixon's ceramics address internal emotional struggles, advocating for transparency and mental health awareness through the disfigurement of her forms, and irregular tactility of her surfaces.

Dixon's artistic process is introspective, yet it enables her to externalize emotions and depict the natural world from an unidealized perspective. By embracing the inherent fragility of ceramic objects and showcasing visible imperfections such as materialized cracks, she underscores the unpredictability of our subconscious. Her method, blending meditative practice with playful intuition, involves iterative processes of construction, reflection, deconstruction, and reconstruction, fostering a contemplative state of mind.

Through the works of Deery and Dixon, Natural Resilience invites viewers to explore the intricate malleability inherent in both the natural environment and the human spirit. The exhibition examines themes of growth, adaptation, and the enduring beauty found in transient moments of life.

We cordially invite you to join us for the opening reception on July 24th, from 6 to 8 pm, at Tappeto Volante Projects in Gowanus, Brooklyn.