Exhibition Sept. 10–19, 2020
Day & Night Projects is excited to present Motherlode, a solo exhibition by Atlanta artist Tikva Lantigua. Imagining the gallery walls as open pages, Lantigua’s layered silkscreen and monotype prints bring marks, cartoon clouds, aphorisms, and dream logic into a soup of interior testimony. In Motherlode, this mining of inner worlds extracts a less-than-official history; a grab bag of cultural, familial, personal-mythological, hidden histories. Type as repetitious poetry floats over and through fields of color and scribbled strokes to reach back through memory, desire, the unsettled and eternal, to find evidence of the unseen life that connects us and drives us apart; we viewers are caught in the act, reaching to place our selves within each other.
Motherlode will be on view September 10–19. Gallery hours are 12–5pm: Thursday, Sept. 10, Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: No opening reception will be held. The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible. Motherlode will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Tikva Lantigua is a visual artist with a writing practice, interpreting cultural and relational, familial and societal dissonance through an auto/biographical lens. She grew up in no place in particular, stateside and Germany, in a vaguely itinerant fashion, from army base to army base. Tikva thinks this has influenced her emphasis on the instability of identity, the slipperiness of communication, and the intricacies of what it means to be “I” in a “we” that keeps changing. Lantigua earned a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in Printmaking, and an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. She has experience in things adjacent to art production which inform her practice: fine bookbinding, teaching art at the college level, exhibition install, commercial and fine art screen printing, and collections and archive work. Tikva is currently starting a small business of printed apparel and home goods, and doing a lot of learning. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Hundreds of Thousands at The Dude Ranch, Austin TX, performance and iInstallation at Penland School of Crafts, and Impossible Biology for the new media curatorial series Her Environment, NY. Screenings include WonderRoot’s Generally Local, Mostly Independent Film Festival, Atlanta, and Lyric Theater Screening for the Carrizozo AIR program, Carrizozo, NM. Her writing has been published by Inbtwn. Magazine, Yes Ma’am Press, and Fall Line Press in Atlanta. Tikva enjoys residencies and has been to several across the country including Haystack Mountain School of Craft, ME and Andrea Zittel’s A-Z West in Joshua Tree, CA.
