I’ve been having an amazing time @chanorthartresidency making, looking, reading, thinking, finishing, and getting to know the other amazing artists I’m here with. Looking forward to the next two weeks in this space.
First photo by @ruotaitang.art
#countryliving #chanorth #chanorthresidency
Reliquary (What the House Keeps)
wood, acrylic, graphite on paper, human teeth and bones, velvet fabric, batting, found stickers, spray paint roof shingles, LED lights, extension cord, hardware / 23 × 29.5 × 7.5 in and extension cord / 2026
On the inside, human bones and teeth rest on voluptuous velvet, while detailed interior drawings preserve traces of what once occupied the space, embedding belief, fear, and cultural memory within the architecture, furniture, and corners. The interior functions as both container and witness, drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s notion of the house as a vessel of memory. Echoing the structure of a Catholic reliquary, the house frames these remains as objects of preservation and quiet veneration.
Evoking the horror trope that the call is coming from inside the house, the work presents a defamiliarized sanctuary for the collective anxiety at the core of the American dream.
Reliquary (What the House Keeps)
wood, acrylic, graphite on paper, human teeth and bones, velvet fabric, batting, found stickers, spray paint, roof shingles, LED lights, extension cord, hardware
23 × 29.5 × 7.5 in and extension cord
2026
This work is a miniature dollhouse reconstructed as a reliquary for the domestic anxieties, moral panics, and latent violence that haunt American life. Constructed from discarded wood and adorned with seemingly haphazard stickers, it juxtaposes the precarity of the American domestic with the unthinking play of a child.
Modeled after the Amityville Horror house, its form references the Dutch Colonial Revival style (gambrel roof, symmetrical façade, and the now-iconic “eyebrow” windows), features that helped fix the house in the American imagination. Repackaged through books and countless films, the original 1974 murders have been absorbed into myth, transforming the house into a symbol of the American Gothic, similar to fictional structures like the Bates house or the Overlook Hotel. The exterior reflects a cultural need to locate danger outside ourselves, even as the house, as image and object, quietly accumulates and contains the anxieties projected onto it, and sourced from within.
Gaston Bachelard wrote that the house protects the dreamer, but what if what haunts the interior is a nightmare?
This work, along with others, will be included in a solo exhibition this October @redgiantgallery
MLIS faculty member Jonathan Lee has been hired by the Library of Virginia to curate their VA250 exhibition! As a visiting artist at ODU last semester, @jleerva joined Kyle Kogut @kylekogut@oduartdept in his multidisciplinary course Envisioning Revolution. With support from @libraryofva (who provided $500 student honorariums and librarian Sarah Falls, an ODU alum) and @oduhistory (who provided graduate student Daniel Conner to do research), students were asked to create portraits of previously unseen Virginians based on petitions submitted to the state between 1776 - 1786. Those portraits and petitions, along with related research, are the foundation of the exhibition, providing insight into the diverse voices and revolutionary spirit of the time.
The @varevolution250 exhibition Envisioning Revolution opens Saturday, June 13 and runs through Thursday, December 31. There will be a satellite exhibition at @odulibraries during the Fall 2026 semester. More information and images to come, but for now, here are some photos from last semester, both inside and outside of the classroom, including works in progress for the exhibition.
Inhumation
printed polystyrene and acrylic / 94 x 36 x .25 in / 2025
I’m excited to share this work that is included in MUSKEG, curated by Jacob Rhodes + Jessica Hargreaves
@fieldprojects@motherinlawsart
This work is presented as a monumental funeral procession tag. These objects are distributed to attendees of a funeral and placed on a car rearview mirror to let other drivers and police know that they are part of a procession from the funeral home to the cemetery. These tags are often brightly colored and disposed of after a funeral.
I have been fascinated by and collecting these objects for years, being drawn to their simultaneous objective and subjective nature. They are impersonal (mass produced and given to every funeral attendant regardless of their relationship to the deceased), and also incredibly personal (being a totem of the burial of one’s closest loved one). This object is an exact replica of the funeral tag that was given to me at my father’s funeral two years ago, an object that I have hated and cherished since that day.
The oddly minimalist mobile towers over viewers and the word “FUNERAL” presents the essence of the object and ritual, defamiliarizing and abstracting how we memorialize and grieve. Hanging in a tree above viewers introduces an environmental undertone, with death being an essential element of nature; it is as natural as birth and adaptation. This work acts as a monument to the lifecycle of both humans and nature, serving as a universal and personal memorial.
Come see this work for yourself at
MUSKEG
Curated by Jacob Rhodes + Jessica Hargreaves
@fieldprojects@motherinlawsart
July 17-Sep 27, 2025
Artist Reception: July 19, 4pm
@upstateartweekend : July 17-21
Mother-In-Law’s
140 Church Ave, Germantown, NY 12526
ICONOMANCY @theinformationspace
Today is the last day to see ICONOMANCY at the closing reception from 1-4 pm with an artist talk at 3 pm.
This exhibition has been a personal favorite of mine. Thank you to the @theinformationspace for supporting my work, @pauldagostinostudio for writing the incredible Community Pages, and to all who have seen and supported the exhibition.
🕯️ 📼 🎃 ♊️ 🕯️
#soloexhibition #kylekogut
Don’t miss the Closing Reception of ICONOMANCY next Saturday 5/31 from 1-4 pm, during which artist Kyle Kogut will give an artist talk at 3 pm. 🕯️
This is your last chance to drink the flavor-aid and get your limited-edition copy of the ♊️ Order of the Gemini ♊️ Community Pages.
📅 May 31st
⏰ 1-4 pm
🎤 Artist Talk 3 pm
📍 2024 E Westmoreland St #artisttalk #closingreception
Honored to have ICONOMANCY, currently on view @theinformationspace reviewed by @edward_waisnis for @whitehotmagazine
Also highlighter are other fantastic shows and spaces in Philly.
Read Edward’s insight and full review at the link in my bio.
ICONOMANCY is on view until 5/31, with gallery hours on Saturdays from 2-4. We will be hosting a closing reception and artist on the 31st. More info soon!
Full of dark humor and implicit mystique, the mixed-media sculptures and drawings Kyle Kogut @kylekogut created for “Iconomancy”, the artist’s current solo show at The Information Space @theinformationspace in Philadelphia, were the generative objects for me to write in a variety of fictive modes and voices while composing “Community Pages”, a newsletter-type volume that features a range of hokeyness, humor, holiness, and subdued horror, all indicative of the character of and a number of characters in the local chapter of an imaginary sect known as The Order of the Gemini, of which Kyle’s artworks are held to be hallowed artifacts. Alongside a number of strange newsletter-ish entries I might’ve had too much fun writing, the volume, designed by Kyle as a limited-edition zine, also features several exhibition-specific texts, including my obliquely angled “Preamble to a Viewing” walkthrough of the show, and Kyle’s own statement about his artwork in general and the works on view. Grab a copy of “Community Pages” if you visit “Iconomancy,” which is on view now and through May 31st. You can also read “Community Pages” online. Link in bio. ⚡️🔥 🕯️ 🔥 ⚡️
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#pauldagostino #artwriting #exhibitiontext #fiction #newsletter #zine #informationspace #philadelphia #kylekogut #iconomancy #communitypages #orderofthegemini
Thank you to all who came out last night for the opening of ICONOMANCY @theinformationspace .
It was great to share my recent work and reconnect with Philly.
The exhibition is on view until May 31st, during which we will host a closing reception and artist talk. Follow @theinformationspace for gallery hours and closing reception details.
Honorable members of the Order of the Gemini ♊️, it is our pleasure to share this month’s edition of Community Pages. Get updates on Order news, chime in on local chatter, explore the marketplace, and read this month’s Words of the Grand Executor.
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Written by @pauldagostinostudio and designed by @kylekogut , this limited-edition news letter also includes a “Preamble to a Viewing of ICONOMANCY”to heighten your experience. Pick up your copy at the opening of ICONOMANCY tomorrow night from 5-8 pm @theinformationspace , located at 2024 E Westmoreland St.
#newsletter #pamphlet #orderofthegemini #wordsonhigh #publication
