In Your Arms I’m Radiant

In the second of three innovative exhibitions featuring pairs of artists whose work is sometimes overtly, sometimes inadvertently linked through the intimacies of living together, Shoshana Wayne Gallery highlights the artwork of Ashwini Bhat and the poetry of Forrest Gander. Bhat’s tumultuous, color-dappled ceramic sculptures relate the fire-and-earthquake-altered landscape of her adopted home, California, to female nature spirits of India. Gander’s short poems, with its left margins, stepped to enact the horizontal movement of a strike-slip fault, hovers behind a sculpture like the low rumbling vibration that accompanies an earthquake. Both Bhat and Gander are interdisciplinary collaborators whose lives are intertwined by their mutual interest in ecology and place, emphasizing species interconnectedness. They live in the foothills of the Sonoma Mountains in northern California.

Images: Shoshana Wayne Gallery and John Janca