Dreamsong

ON VIEW

PENUMBRA
NICOLE HAVEKOST

Based in Rochester, Minnesota, Nicole Havekost’s practice centers on the female body whose forms she extracts, magnifies, abstracts, and multiplies. Imbued with raw physicality, new works on paper, wall reliefs, and sculptures construct the shared experience of female corporeality with tender, laborious gestures.

Hidden scars and visceral protrusions are rendered in the delicate poked holes, deep red pastels, and crystal flecks of Havekost’s oeuvre. Through fields of mottled silver and deep voids of powdery graphite, a tactile vocabulary of somatic abstraction emerges through forms split with fissures and tears. Building a universe out of skin, the artist’s materiality nods to both Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois. The space of Penumbra also recalls Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born (1986), in which the writer argues that “Far from existing in the mode of ‘inner space,’ women are powerfully and vulnerably attuned both to ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ because for us the two are continuous, not polar.”

ART WEEK EVENTS

WALKTHROUGH
SAT 1 PM
Walkthrough with Nicole Havekost of her exhibition Penumbra.

CONVERSATION
SAT 2 PM
Panel discussion on the art of collecting art with Rosario Güiraldes, Rebecca Heidenberg & Dan Lively, moderated by Matthew Schum.

GATHERING
SAT 3-5 PM
Pick up a free drink ticket at Dreamsong and join us at The Briar for a gathering with fellow art lovers.

1237 4th St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Wed-Sat 12–5 + by appointment 
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Image: Nicole Havekost. Overlay, 2024. Graphite, soft pastel, graphite putty on rag paper. 22 x 30 in. Courtesy of the artist and Dreamsong