A blush, a flush, a fever, a command
Abbey Muza, MFA 2022, Fibers & Material Studies
An abandoned shoe, a rotten tooth, a snub nose, the cook spitting in the soup of his masters are to love what a battle flag is to nationality.
An umbrella, a sexagenarian, a seminarian, the smell of rotten eggs, the hollow eyes of judges are the roots that nourish love.
A dog devouring the stomach of a goose, a drunken vomiting woman, a sobbing accountant, a jar of mustard represent the confusion that serves as the vehicle of love.
-Georges Bataille, excerpt from “The Solar Anus,” 1931
Installation View. Junking Pulses, 2022 silk, wool, cotton, dye, organza, enamel, wood, concrete; The Sea, 2022 silk, wool, cotton, dye, ink, organza, enamel, wood, concrete; A blush, a flush, a fever, a command, 2022 silk, wool, cotton, organza, enamel, wood, concrete. Photo credit: Neighboring States.
Installation View. Divine and Darling, 2022 silk, wool, cotton, organza, enamel, wood Inversions devient Urania, 2022 silk, wool, cotton, organza, enamel, wood; Set out saucers for animals and I too will grow claws, 2022 wool, cotton, organza, gesso on panel. Photo credit: Neighboring States.
Installation View. Les vagues se heurtent et gémissent, 2022 wool, mohair, cotton, dye, organza, gesso on panel Dogfight, Chewey and Baby, 2022 silk, wool, cotton, organza, enamel, wood. Photo credit: Neighboring States.
Installation View. Photo credit: Neighboring States.
Installation View. Dogfight, Chewey and Baby, 2022 silk, wool, cotton, organza, enamel, wood; Charley’s ass in the rose garden, 2022 wool, mohair, cotton, organza, gesso on panel; Continuously, 2022 silk, cotton, dye, organza, gesso on panel. Photo credit: Neighboring States.
Installation View. Photo credit: Neighboring States.
Installation View. Photo credit: Neighboring States.
Installation View. Photo credit: Neighboring States.
Abbey Muza
Abbey Muza uses weaving as a methodology for image-making centered in queer identity, haptics, and sensuality. They received their MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They have shown at spaces including Threewalls Gallery, LVL3, SOFA Chicago, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and the American Language Institute of Fez. They have been an artist in residence at ACRE, Alternative Worksite in Roanoke, Virginia (supported by the Robert Overby Foundation), and AIR Sefrou outside of Fes, Morocco. They are a 2022 Oxbow Leroy Neiman Fellowship and a joint Fulbright France - Harriet Hale Wooley award recipient.