Pocket Art Swap 10: Memories

Join us for the opening of Pocket Art Swap number 10: Memories Memories are powerful. They hold valuable threads of who we were, and who we are. By nature, they only exist in the past and though their clarity can sometimes feel like crystal, they are malleable as soft clay in our hands. With the ability to travel across time, a memory can be recalled over and over. Sometimes as a source of comfort, others as a remembrance of pain or loss. They can strike without warning as they are often attached to other senses such as smell, taste, or touch. Memories can also exist in the collective. Families, communities, and generations passing their histories on to their youth. Popular culture disseminated across the airwaves of the radio, television, or streaming service- beamed to our screens and stored in our minds’ visual vocabulary vault, only to be resurfaced when someone says “…remember when?”. It’s in these moments of recollection that we’ve asked the artists to examine and explore. To mine their mind, see what they come back with, and let the ideas overflow into their artworks. Curio. Owners Nicole Duquette and Matt Chapman first developed the pocket art swap in 2019. Both wanted to create a way to connect artists together and celebrate the individuality each of us hold in a unique and meaningful way. Utilizing a mini pad of paper measuring only 2.5 inches by 3.75 inches, each artist could fill their pages any way they saw fit. Culminating in a “pop up” style exhibition, the artists were asked to come together and share their creations. Each participant would then receive a collection of each other’s mini works to keep for themselves.