WHEREVER FOREVER
Angela Zonunpari & Amy Jarding
Curated by Bethanie Irons
7.1.2022-8.5.2022
Opening Reception | Friday, July 1: 6-9 pm
Wherever Forever presents multi-media work by artists Angela Zonunpari and Amy Jarding. The exhibition features weavings, quilts, and constructions that serve as ruminations on patience and practice. Both Zonunpari and Jarding welcome adaptation, exploration, and interaction while simultaneously focusing on routine and intention. Jarding writes, “My creative process has remained these miniature isolated journeys – experiments with color, viscosity, patience...avoidance.” The resulting work is an incarnation of process-driven research and learning. Zonunpari describes her work as "an embodiment of my need for distinct markers to become a focused reader, an invitation to return and hone in on that practice, and an intention to embrace slowness through the act of working in texts and textiles." By engaging in the ritual of artistic practice, both artists find a balance between a dialogue and something ineffable. "Wherever" signifies place and a non-place. Everywhere and nowhere all at once. "Forever" never comes to an end and continues endlessly. The work in this exhibition resists immediacy and definitive answers and speaks to the empowerment of connecting with our inner selves, materials, and each other.
Angela Zonunpari is a South Asian (northeast India) immigrant artist and writer living in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Her interdisciplinary practice includes texts, books, textiles, curation and community-building. It is led by the intention of creating interactions between people; people and ideas; people and art. To explore her areas of interest, Zonunpari currently produces a limited-run, artist-made arts and culture publication called No Business Magazine. She is the Managing Editor at Arts Midwest, a non-profit organization that promotes creativity, nurtures cultural leadership, and engages people in meaningful arts experiences, bringing vitality to Midwest communities and enriching people’s lives.
www.nobusinessmagazine.com | www.angelazonunpari.com
@nobizmag | @angelazonunpari
Amy Jarding is a visual artist living in Sioux Falls, SD. She creates a range of mixed media pieces, obscuring everyday objects into surreal visions with the use of collage, painting, sewing and weaving. Bright pops of color and small hints of humor offer the viewer their own experience within each piece. This exploratory nature embodies her approach to fiber art, in which she creates large scale weavings from yarn and found material, often without any predetermined design. Hailing praise towards process, Jarding finds the creative development of her work just as important as the completed piece.
amyjarding.com | @amyjarding
About the Curator
Dr. Bethanie Irons (she/her/hers) is an artist, curator, and educator residing in Columbia, Missouri. She earned a BFA in visual art from the University of South Dakota, MFA in visual studies from the University of Missouri, and PhD in art education from the University of Missouri with an emphasis on higher education and teaching with technology. Bethanie has exhibited her work internationally and has been featured in numerous publications including New American Paintings and Friend of the Artist. She has curated over 50 exhibitions, including her work at PLEAT, an online gallery she ran for four years. Bethanie is currently serving as program chair and assistant professor of communication design at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. At Stephens, she is the director of the Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, the advisor for Stephens Life Magazine, and the advisor for Creative Ink, the college's student-run marketing agency.