Support Systems, 2021

Egg Collective is pleased to present Support Systems, a group exhibition featuring works by Steven Haulenbeek, Ben Medansky, Brian Thoreen, Vissio, Stephen Somple and Taylor Kibby. 

Support Systems, presents the work of six artists/collaboratives; for all of whom, material understanding and experimentation is at the heart of their practice. Each artist has mastered and expanded the use of their medium of choice and utilizes that mastery as a method of support for the conceptual works they create. The pieces included in the exhibition demonstrate not only an intensive study of how material, form and concept come together but also the ability of the included artists to create boundary blurring works that echo truth, playfulness, melancholy, trauma and the presence of the human form. 

While the exhibition formally coalesces around the framework that material provides for the creative impulse, Support Systems as a concept operates as a duality of sorts. It is a play on words for the specific need of support that both artists and society have felt so deeply during the pandemic.