schips
Fox Hysen and Molly Zuckerman - Hartung

October 3 - November 23, 2024

 

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung and Fox Hysen are a couple of painters living and working in Northwest CT. This is their first time showing work together.  The title of our show is a made up word that is a combination of chips and ships. 

 

A landscape under foot is just dirt. Fox Hysen’s work slips between deep space and flatness, between going there and having arrived — a landscape is produced both by what is out there and also by the frame which is close at hand. Her paintings and drawings are a part of a process of reproducing and interpreting other paintings and drawings. The subjects of her work are often experiences of place. The lines and motifs often originate from observational drawings made on site but then evolve over time as they are reproduced, worked with, and translated into paint.

 

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung’s work slips around and tries to fall apart. Falling apart means falling to the ground, “let the chips fall where they may”. There’s distance and here’s a thing. To hold the parts together. In my mind schips makes two columns of words. Like supports, they’re structural. Things from this side, things from that. Thises and thats. Basic schips. No seasonings.