Abstract
Fragments from 12:27 pm – 8:43 am is a mixed media installation in the form of a mobile that attempts to recreate the dream experience, utilizing a series of abstract, abstracted, and hybridized signs and symbols that move amongst themselves to create a changing narrative of the artist's unconscious. Accompanying the installation is a zine detailing components of the installation, while also giving the audience something to remind them of their experience.
This mobile is a growing conversation surrounding the artist's dreams and the meanings she perceives them to have. Dreams are a space where time and space are condensed; she has expressed this understanding within the installation. The images are based on her nightly dreams and the concepts or memories they’re associated with. Throughout the project, Galloy has collected objects from my dreams and has morphed their physical and symbolic meanings into surreal imagery. Within the installation, there are various types of wire suspending a series of drawings, ceramic sculptures, and paper sculptures. Throughout these assets is a blending of abstracted patterns and mark-making, as well as direct and figurative imagery.
This project is an attempt to understand the dream space through morphing narratives and images within a mobile. Through the artist's obsession with experimentation, she has begun to create visual vocabulary depicting the strange yet meaningful symbols within dreams. By steadily collecting her dreams, she has been learning what makes a dream feel like a dream. Much of this project has pushed Galloy towards the idea of space, time, and transitions between them. Within this thesis, through expressive mark-making and material combination, she has created a space for dreams and for acknowledging their significant influences on daily life.
Artist Statement
Brigit Galloy explores the themes of embodiment, connection, and indescribable realities through a multi-disciplinary two-dimensional and three-dimensional visual practice. Employing both realistic and abstract strategies, Galloy is constantly searching for new combinations of visual codes that best represent the internal phenomenon present within life, especially making oneiric spaces physical. She is drawn to a variety of mediums, including various forms of painting, drawing, ceramics, collage, and letterpress. She has formed her thesis around this obsession with physical mark and exploration.
In her most recent work, she has started exploring three-dimensional spaces through ceramics, paper mache, installations, and works that hang from the ceiling. While she starts her work within a sketchbook, her pieces take on new forms and meaning when morphed into three-dimensions. She has started drawing on her ceramics using similar techniques and styles as in her sketchbooks, which has pushed her understanding of how two-dimensional and
three-dimensional spaces interact; Galloy is continuously learning about how form, surface, and mark-making influence one another. Her thesis has been a unique opportunity to continue to combine sculpture and her illustration in order to study the interaction of space and image.
Born in Boulder, Colorado, Galloy earned her BFA in Illustration from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Throughout her work, she comes back to this idea of domestic spaces and objects, and their relationship with the living world. Within Galloy’s thesis, she has collected repeated imagery from her dreams, connecting similarities and assigning them symbolic meanings within her understanding of the sleeping mind. Galloy encourages dichotomies –object and image, figurative and abstract, immaterial and material, nature and city – and lets them play with one another in her work. She aspires to further her understanding of phenomenology in relation to form and mark-making.
