Exhibition Artist Highlight: Unseen Sacrifices
In this exhibition “Unseen Sacrifices”, Satpreet Kahlon, Ashante Kindlé and Holly Ballard Martz ask our audience to think about and reevaluate the cost of emotional labor: to start to think of emotional labor as real and valuable work, as well as, evaluate times they have given and receive this kind of labor for others.
These three artists have all submitted work which questions who is expected to perform emotional labor for others and what impact that may have on the ‘giver’ of emotional labor. Through different mediums, in particular sculpture and works on paper, they pose important and deep questions about the effects and expectations of labor in our community.
Ashante Kindle
Ashante Kindle is a current MFA candidate of the University of Connecticut. Through her practice she hopes to function as a form of personal healing and “creates with a desire to celebrate the history and beauty of blackness”. Her current focus on the shape and form of the s-curl waves in black hair serves to explore the repetition of her mark making over time to function as a form of labor in her practice, the body, emotions, and occupying space.
Satpreet Kahlon is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a full-fellowship to pursue her MFA in sculpture. She has also been named one of the 35 most influential people in Seattle by Seattle Magazine. Many of her works serve as physical testaments to the immensity of invisible labor done by marginalized bodies and how those bodies navigate institutional systems - educational, governmental and non-profit. She is less concerned with what form her art may take and instead focuses on the impact of it: “whether it can work towards addressing and correcting thousands of years of continued societal inequality”.
Satpreet Kahlon
Satpreet Kahlon is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a full-fellowship to pursue her MFA in sculpture. She has also been named one of the 35 most influential people in Seattle by Seattle Magazine. Many of her works serve as physical testaments to the immensity of invisible labor done by marginalized bodies and how those bodies navigate institutional systems - educational, governmental and non-profit. She is less concerned with what form her art may take and instead focuses on the impact of it: “whether it can work towards addressing and correcting thousands of years of continued societal inequality”.
Holly Ballard Martz
Holly Ballard Martz holds a BFA in printmaking and a BA in business administration from the University of Washington. She is a multidisciplinary artist who, through the use of language and found objects, creates “iconic works about deeply felt societal, political and personal issues”. Her work helps not only her to articulate her concerns and engender critical dialogue, about topics such as mental illness, gun violence, and reproductive rights, but also encourages the viewer to do the same.
