Opening of BETWEEN LIGHT AND EARTH

Bolm Arts is proud to present BETWEEN LIGHT AND EARTH, a new two-person exhibition featuring the works of Christa Gomez and Phokus, on view from September 17th through October 3rd. Some relationships are built through similarity. Others are built through sustained difference. Between Light and Earth emerges from an ongoing dialogue between artists Christa Gomez and Phokus, whose practices have developed alongside one another through their participation in UMBRA—an artist collective rooted in conversation, challenge, experimentation, and mutual support.

The exhibition takes its title from the tension between two elemental conditions. Earth suggests matter, weights, origin, and touch. Light suggests perception, visibility, recognition, and transformation. Between them exist a threshold, a space where form is still becoming and meaning remains open. Rather than resolving the differences between the two practices, BETWEEN LIGHT AND EARTH allows those differences to become the structure of the exhibition. Gomez moves inward through vessel and…