Alumna Clare Koury ‘20 in Group Exhibition ‘eddy’

Last month, M 2 3 presented eddy, a group exhibition featuring alumna Clare Koury ’20 in New York, NY. The exhibition featured recent work by Koury, Daniel Klaas Beckwith, Quay Quinn Wolf, Tenant of Culture, and Vladislav Markov. Koury presented two pieces; “Feast of the Ascension” and “Panic Bars.” 

“Feast of the Ascension” is a 117 inches tall installation made of track light heads, corn kernels, double cherry tokens, and cosmic brownies. “Panic Bars” is a 36 inch tall piece made of panic bars and hardware. 

“Koury’s works repurpose inconspicuous industrial fixtures, forcing a renegotiation of the body’s relationship to the hardware which characterizes banal interiors,” Holly Bushman of M 2 3 writes. 

An “eddy” is a small, spiral vortex, which spins counter to and disrupts the current. Eddies catch, confuse, addle, and amaze. The works similarly push against “the currents of our material world, and in doing so call on us to suspend disbelief: in repurposing and recontextualizing media and materials from industrial, domestic, and nonhuman spaces the five artists represented here articulate the fragmented, yet poetic, nature of the present moment. To those caught in the slipstream of material culture, these works are eddies in the face of capitalism’s incessant flows,” as stated in M 2 3’s press release.

Koury (b. 1993, Kentucky) is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, video and sound. Koury lives and works in New York City. She holds an MFA from Columbia University (2020), and a BA from the University of Chicago (2015). Koury’s work has been included in exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and London, as well as presented at The Jewish Museum, New York (2019); The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY (2019); and online via Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA (2020).

eddy was installed from December 10 through February 7, 2021.