Stones with each other and with the light. I want to thank @apekurovsky for taking these photos of my sculptures at the gallery @my.pet.ram on the day of deinstall as we were moving some of the pieces around 🪨✨🌤️.
Description of photos:
Image 1:
Installation view i
Image 2:
Installation view ii
Image 3:
Width of presence, as if life were what could be measured, 2025-26, Alabaster, 9” X 5.5” X 6”
Image 4: Installation view iv
Image 5:
Lisps a form, as little fingers, or glass in snow, 2025-26, Alabaster, earth, pine pedestal, .5” X 8” X 7”
Image 6:
All that was touched was a kind of writing, 2025-26, Alabaster, 10” X 7” X 6” view i
Image 7:
All that was touched was a kind of writing, 2025-26, Alabaster, 10” X 7” X 6” view ii
Image 8:
Trace, circumambulate, 2026, Alabaster, 4” X 4” X 1
I’m so honored by the words the brilliant @kytheheller wrote on my book “Dim, Dahlia, Violet Stone,” an excerpt of which was published in the Irish Literary Supplement. In a passage from the longer review she writes, “Emotion and language here are tactile forms that lead us—our hands holding the book, our fingers tracing its images, our eyes reading the page—in directions that contradict our minds and logic but which reveal the felt presence of the encounter, of language within language and of touch within touch….To encounter is to be transformed, and in Dim Dahlia Violet Stone, the generative spaces between us, the half-light between lovers or the cool, dim spaces between poet and reader, those ineffable, unnamable, subtle moments of living encounter and interiority, are a taut atmosphere that reverberates. In the nuances of these encounters, the grey areas where so much richness and authenticity of inner experience emerges, touch connects, is contiguous.” I was so delighted to collaborate on this book of my poetry and sculpture in conversation with @_hannahwhitaker and her amazing photographs, with designs by Elana Schlenker and the whole team at ITI press at @cornellmfa_imagetext
Simone Kearney
The substance of yes, the substance of no, 2025
Alabaster, earth, pine pedestal
2 x 3.5 x 6 inches
On view in Favorite Stone through Saturday, February 14th. The gallery is located at 48 Hester Street on the Lower East Side. Gallery hours are Thursday–
Sunday, 12–6 PM, and by appointment. For more information, please contact [email protected].
The show’s title “Favorite Stone” is in conversation with the Surrealist French poet Andre Breton’s essay, “The Language of Stones,” when he writes: “I’ve often thought those (stones) that, during a group search, assign themselves, by their qualities of substance or structure, to each individual’s attention, are those that offer the maximum affinity to their particular constitution. It seems certain to me that, on the same walk, two beings, unless they resemble each other in some strange sense, could not possibly pick up the same stones, so true is it that we find only what meets a deep need, even if such a need could solely be satisfied in a completely symbolic way.” Breton proposes a relationship to the material world that is full of intimacy and revelation. A stone might resonate with us. Or we might gravitate to one stone as opposed to another, like we might to a particular person in a crowd. They speak to us, for some reason. And stones speak to us – or at least they do for those who want to listen. They show us something about ourselves, and tell us about that which is timeless and beyond us.
On view through February 14th. The gallery is located at 48 Hester Street on the Lower East Side. Gallery hours are Thursday–Sunday, 12–6 PM, and by appointment. For more information, please contact [email protected].
I’m happy to have these four sculptures, along with five others, on view @kokiarts at the Nagoya Art Fair in Japan this weekend.
Image 1: (In the fissure, the bird returns), 2025, Alabaster, 3” x 5” x 0.5”
Image 2: (Distance that flowers in your hand), 2024, Marble, 15 x 11 x 3
Image 3: (As if time were swelling, a huge wave), 2025, Soapstone, 7” x 5” x 1”
Image 4: (I bow outwards, like a cornea), 2025, Alabaster, 6” x 4.5” x 1”
Simone Kearney
The saffron, the blur, the water, the wasp, the slope, the distant, the lugubrious, the violent, the wet, the
impasse, the holy, the fruit, the hearing, the angels: burning, alive, knotted, jarring, provoking, deranged,
bleeding, oblivious, succumbed, left, flowing, 2024
Rhyolite
5.5 x 3.5 x 5.5 inches
(What Is It That Unfolds As Space, Invisible?), 2025, Rhyolite, 6” x 5” x 3.5”, on view with @kokiarts at the Nagoya Art Fair in Japan this weekend.
Thank you so much to everyone that joined us last night for the opening of Favorite Stone! The gallery is open today (Saturday) from 12-6pm and will be closed on Sunday.
