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Effective January 1: Masks are Optional in VisArts’ Classrooms and Studios
Entropy alludes to the gradual disintegration of order. For this exhibition, the erosions not only speak to the fabrication process but also underpin the approach to material concerns.
Rivera’s practice often finds its concepts in its material specificity. The work grapples with building a conceptual archive. How to invoke emotion and memory through object-making?
Entropy welcomes you to consider the domestic, outside of its usual context. Kitchenware, home decor, and family trinkets are replaced with vacancies. Leaving viewers to contemplate these choices of reduction. The materials present asks you to ruminate on the unfamiliar; how do these subversive relationships to the interior reflect our exterior perceptions?
Kiara-Maribel Rivera is a Salvadoran American multidisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of memory, loss and heritage through a tactile, labor-intensive practice. Central to Rivera’s artistic exploration is the concept of the ephemeral archive—a deep dive into the visceral experience of memory through labor and abstraction.
Rivera earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, focusing on ceramics, fibers, and sculpture. She has attended the DWL Air residency and received a Maryland State Arts Council grant for artists.
OPENING CELEBRATION: FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 | 7-9 PM Enjoy new exhibitions, music, drinks, eats, and more! RSVP
COFFEE AND CONVERSATION: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 | 1-2:30 PM Join artists Kiara Rivera and Anna Kroll for coffee and conversation about their current exhibitions and experiences as 2024 Bresler Residents. RSVP
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