According to Perry Obee, a professional collaborative printer, we all exist in a state he calls “the in-between.” He explains, “We are all in between one phase of life or another. In between ideas we once believed and new ideas that are emerging. In between coming and going, creation and destruction, existence and nothingness.” The In-Between, a pop-up exhibition happening at Little Animals in downtown Asheville, riffs on this liminality with a series of lithographs and monotypes produced at Obee Editions, the printmaker’s creative space in Black Mountain. These pieces were made in collaboration with a diverse group of Southern artists, including Asheville painter Julyan Davis. Titled “Candy Apples,” Davis’ lithograph pulls imagery from the North Carolina Mountain State Fair — a place he says is “full of incident and narrative.” What results exudes nostalgia for a time that is neither here nor there. Obee hopes this work and others included in the show will encourage “viewers to think critically about the complexities of art and life” and “to navigate the threshold between the known and the unknown.”
The In-Between: Through March 14; Closing Reception: Friday, March 14, 5-7:30pm
Little Animals / 31 Carolina Lane, Downtown Asheville / obeeeditions.com