Grizzly Grizzly Solo Exhibition & Artist Talk

Opens Friday, October 2. Runs through November 29, 2020.
Gallery hours: By Appointment Only. Email: 2xGrizzly@gmail.com
Press contact: Maggie Mills, Millssuperstar@gmail.com

This October, Grizzly Grizzly is pleased to present 2020, a solo exhibition of new work by Queens based artist, Jennie Thwing. Thwing’s animation and gallery installation made from cut felt are a response to the extraordinary turmoil of this pivotal year in the United States.

Thwing’s personal perspective on the Trump era, Black Lives Matter, the pandemic, and the twenty-four-hour news stream become a rhythmic mantra in her animation. The chaotic simultaneity of current events and Thwing’s internal conflict is set to a soundtrack that is both catchy and unsettling. In 2020, our collective trauma and grief is balanced with moments of hope. Thwing uses the body’s position and proximity to other bodies as a gauge of emotional states: the anxiety of oppression, solidarity of protest, sadness of solitary illness, callousness of the news cycle, and quietness of communing with nature.