Marrow Gallery is pleased to introduce works from gallery artists Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Kelly Inouye, Stephanie Robison and Jordan Holms.

Kimia Ferdowsi Kline’s Mother Tongue marks a significant formal shift in Kline’s oeuvre from oil painting on traditional rectilineal planes to a mixed media approach centralizing papyrus surfaces and incorporating thread, pearls, beads, glitter, and ink. Parallel to this emergence of new materials, Kline distills her subject matter into body-based lexicons as a tool to decipher the expansive mysteries of human relationships. Cut out from the distractions of place, situation, context, and even gravity, these emotionally-charged figures take center stage as they grapple with the complexity of self and each other. Mother Tongue, opens at Marrow Gallery on May 12th.

Kelly Inouye’s large-scale watercolors were inspired by the televised world of women’s pro wrestling and feminist writing on the topic of women’s anger. In these works, sweeping washes of iridescent pigments depict skilled female athletes staging choreographed physical battles. These figures push, shove, choke, and slam against portrayals of the female body as docile, still, passive, and available within mainstream culture, art history, and social media. Inouye will have a solo exhibition in November 2021. 

Stephanie Robison’s sculptural works often use humor or the absurd to address uncontrollable aspects of the body, the self, the environment, and relationships. Created out of wood, fabric, stone, steel, foam, and plastic, her works synthesize and fuse: organic and geometric, natural and architectural, soft with hard, the handmade and the uniform industrial.

Jordan Holms works primarily in painting, sculpture, and textiles. Her abstract compositions explore how space is organized and assigned meaning. Coded objects that have historically operated as signifiers of power and oppression in material culture collapse into the single plane of her work.