Catherine Czacki: universe will take it
May 25, 2024 - August 18, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, May 25, 5-8pm
 

amber
quick red bead black bead blue bead
endless all season drought freeze resistant cilantro
fish casings candle mount apples orbs sticks
wind chime parts, unassembled
a skunk
the flight who is democracy, failed fired up and begun again
modernisms anti color
instead happens prismatically exploding research embodiment
tiling with shards

eagles for justice, not yet
geopolitical magnetic storms
factitious fetish fétiche feitiço other spellings same thing

the hut
a vague animal

sacks of electrified water
we only have orange mutts
microbes learning to eat plastic
compressed centuries into diamonds
tell my ghost insects eating at the skin is ok for keeping in and out of rhythm
house creature speech
the white wolf says I am the master of
beloved incense burner too tall plate abstraction rest paintings
ladybugs mantis moth jumping spider cricket grasshopper
banjo bucket

window repair each hail
dandelion greens surviving refugee camps tell the body a story
watch another generation tell the same
poppy flower press
flute silver in stars
as semrug turmeric dye white roof log henge bark scaping

returned fascisms of middle future predicted petty nationalisms
heat retaining curtains

what is the cosmic humans student loans love genocide a solar flare dirt 27
trees what makes appeal empathy percussion aging faster in the mountains
than at the sea

About the artist:

Catherine Czacki is an artist, writer, musician, and educator of Polish/Tatar and American descent living in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Czacki’s practice incorporates ceramics, metal, paper mache, found objects, fabric, wood, eco resin, painting, drawing, critical theory, poetry, and sound. Czacki’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and museums including Sculpture Center in Long Island City, JOAN in Los Angeles, Best Practice in San Diego, Prague Biennale, and Museo Centro De Arte Pepe Espaliú, Córdoba, Spain. Czacki’s poetry, essays, and academic writing have been published by Line Script Diary, Haunt Journal of Art at UC Irvine, and Interactions Journal of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. A full length book of Czacki’s poetry and images titled Creosote was published in 2019. Czacki’s scholarly work intersected de/anti/post colonial studies with thinking through terminologies imposed on artists that can limit the understanding of artistic and social roles in communities, such as the term outsider. Additional fields of study are gardening, DIY repairing and building, herbalism, human, animal, plant, material relationships, organic communities, everyday histories or folklores and the diasporic and wide traveling evil eye which intersects with Czacki’s own familial past.