Horizon Realms

March 02- April 01, 2023
Opening Reception / Thursday, March 02, 5–8pm

Winter/Covid-19 Gallery Hours:
Friday–Sunday, 11am–4pm

AMEL AKI PURIC
RAMON MILLS
RYAN WALTERS
CONNIE FU

To walk towards a given horizon leaves another behind. With each we dive headlong into broad dark waters, bringing with us what is precious for guidance.

In moments of fortune I find myself in a pocket dimension, marveling at how meeting you, and beholding the force of your planetary motion and atmosphere, has changed my course forever. I’m thrown into a new universe, not quite complete, but surely different than the one I was just in.

What should I do?

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First there were three, but the fourth arrived later that evening. He’d been staying up til dawn pushing paint around, letting light flicker on plastic, casting shadows on the wall. They recounted recent discoveries, animated like children describing something seen on a journey far from home.

How exactly had they come together, having all swum distinct trajectories with little overlap? Often there is no sufficient explanation for how people collide, or how certain events unravel or take shape. 

I believe now that the way I move through the world has a bit of your gesture in it, a trace of your attitude.

Beyond each horizon is a realm unimagined until reached. All I can do is keep drawing together what little I know, a wobbling magnet catching dust from our conversations.

These four people have placed objects in a room. Let the objects tell a story of lives crossing and falling forward, yours now joined, in surreal splendor.

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ARTIST BIOS /

Ramon Mills is an experimental electronic musician and multimedia artist based in Portland, Oregon working in the Afrofuturist lineage. He works with watercolors, pens, and photo manipulation to create surreal and abstract snapshots and narratives. In all of his work, he attempts to create spaces that are outside the realm of daily life and resonate on a very primal and human level. @puxflux

Ryan Walters is a painter located in Bellingham, WA. @ryanwalters.art

Amel Aki Puric is a New York City-based artist originally from Michigan. Amel has always painted sporadically throughout his life, but the last few months have been an explosion of creativity and exploration. He hopes to continue and see where this revival will take him. @akiamelpuric

Connie Fu is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of weaving and sound. She studied weaving with Mariá Davilá and Eduardo Portillo at Penland School of Craft and subsequently moved to Cleveland to further her studies and community work at Praxis Fiber Workshop. In 2021, she was a resident at Grunewald Guild in Leavenworth, WA, where she immersed herself deeply in a series of weavings and music. She is also a OneBeat fellow, and in 2022 she attended a 3-week residency in Taos and Albuquerque celebrating the program’s tenth anniversary. She currently resides in Seattle, where she is part of SOIL, an artist-run cooperative gallery, and performs and releases electronic music as enereph. @_enereph