October
Solas Studio Gallery
117 East 24th Street, 2D
Manhattan, NY, 10010

By Appointment for Public Safety

The Hybrid Mythologies of Rowynn Dumont & Furusho von Puttkammer

This exhibition is a collection of the wonders and the horrors that live in the multidimensional cracks of everyday life.

Isolation, claustrophobia -the absurdity of “otherness” as defined by Western and Asian culture. We cull from the unique experiences as women in Americana - an attempt to visually recreate the seething silent discomfort and the enduring positionality of childhood traumas and memories. The depicted subjects seduce and invite the viewer into profane scenarios – the sexuality, violence, and absurdity ironically challenges yet champions the viewer as voyeur.

Rowynn Dumont is an artist, curator, and writer, based in New York. Co-founder of Black Rainbow Media (NY). She is a Contributor to SuperRare Editorial, Agora Gallery (NYC) & COOPH Magazine (Austria).

Rowynn holds an MPhil (IDSVA), MFA (AAU), and a BFA in Studies of Taboo Religions & Sexuality in Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rowynn's work can be seen internationally in Nimbus at Vespertine (Shanghai) and The Fowler Museum (Los Angeles). She has lectured at CAA (DTLA), at the Paris School of Art, and The Sexology.

Furusho von Puttkammer is a multimedia artist, curator, and arts director based in NYC. She is the Executive Director of Art in Odd Places, a public arts organization tasked with reclaiming public space. Her work has been shown domestically and internationally, and she has been featured in BUST Magazine, Hyperallergic, Emerging Artists Collective, AMNY, and more. She has been a member of Solas Studio since 2020 and holds a BFA in Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts.