On view: April 25 — June 1, 2025
STEP. STEP. STEP. is a new storybook and a new exhibition by Rebekah Nolan. The exhibition offers an immersive exploration of the book's narrative and visual themes and features collaborating artists Landon Caldwell, Priya Wittman, Danielle Joy Graves, and Nick Witten.
COMPANION presents
STEP. STEP. STEP. with three room-sized installations and accompanying sound compositions. Responding to the middle section of Nolan's storybook, Danielle Joy Graves and collaborator Nick Witten bring to life the empty space. An otherwise ignored middle section of the gallery is activated with a conjuring graphite and found object installation. Graphite-burnished sheet stock material encapsulates the space and ushers viewers past intimate and unfamiliar points of curiosity as they move from the front gallery to the third gallery. A haphazard collection of keys, key chains, and Graves' own small gum sculptures emerge from an early corner, suspended from above. Below, in the same corner and bathed in more shadow, sits a short, tottering stack of dried, halved lemon rinds. Dried leaves are caught in an old yellow bowl overhead, internally lit and hinting at streetlight. A large, petrified log specimen rest beneath an air vent with more halved lemon rinds. And just before exiting, two ducks sit side-by-side, one plastic and situated in light, the other an aluminum casting of the first and situated in shadow — a reference to Nolan's book illustration,
Step In.
The exhibition is generous, perceptive, and serves as a timely reminder to stay the course amid staggering uncertainty.
Small sculptures by Danielle Joy Graves are available for purchase.
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