Braxton Congrove
Standing on Rugs with Goose
July 6 – July 29, 2018
Standing on Rugs with Goose is a fiction based directly on Braxton Congrove’s
everyday life. She uses the materiality of performance and the staging of an
exhibition space to build and populate a nebulous world for the viewer to enter
and be immersed into. This world is created from a vocabulary of playful
color, perspective shifts and cozy textures. Within this world there is a
proposition of play, a return to adolescent self, in a sense, and the power of humor alongside the pathetic nature of these sculptural objects. Braxton employs discarded materials and mediums in attempt to echo and play with domestic hobby craft connotations of flocking and papiermâché. These craft processes are used to make nonfunctional objects that appear to invite use. This separation and closeness are like a screen of her own design for the viewer to see a more playful and wild world.
Braxton Congrove lives and works in Richmond, VA. She received her BFA from James Madison University and attended the Virginia Commonwealth
University Summer Studio Program. Braxton’s most recent solo exhibitions took place at VALET and Arlington Arts Center. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at ADA, Disjecta, and Not Gallery, among others. She has attended residencies at Bread and Puppet Theater, OTTO’s Abode, and c3:Initiative and is currently preparing for an upcoming solo exhibition at Random Access Gallery in Syracuse, NY.
