Feelings Are Facts

July 31 - Sept. 6, 2021

Opening reception: July 31, 3 - 6pm

Feelings Are Facts is the second exhibition presented at Poker Flats in summer 2021. The title is borrowed from the memoir of pioneering artist, dancer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. Recounted with disarming directness and humility, Rainer’s story is one in which art and life were inseparable; she describes how the emergent ideals of minimalism and conceptualism were intertwined with the messiness of relationships, laboring bodies, and the peculiar rhythms of lives lived in search of artistic meaning.

The show brings together a group of artists whose methodical approaches to abstraction are suffused with references to and expressions of the strangeness of living in a human body, having desires and obsessions, seeking humor, intimacy, or release, and absorbing extrasensory and subconscious perceptions. United more by an approach or sensibility than any theme or technique, the works in this exhibition exist as both indexes of deliberate, intensive labor by the artists and as open-ended catalysts for vulnerable self-examination.

Chris Domenick
Julia Fish
Anna Kunz
Hideyo Okamura
Sanou Oumar
Ann Pibal
Alan Reid
Rebecca Shore
Sean Sullivan
Barbara Takenaga
Athena Petra Tasiopoulos
Alice Tippit
Roger White
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung

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Installation view, Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Installation view, Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Alan Reid, Affection & Contempt, 2020, acrylic on linen, 19 x 15 in.

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Alice Tippit, Toy, 2021, oil on canvas, 13 x 10 in.

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Alice Tippit, Fleet, 2020, oil on canvas, 15 x 18 in.

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Roger White, Chicken, 2012, oil on canvas, 11 x 15 in.

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Alice Tippit, Wild, 2021, oil on canvas, 10 x 13.

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Rebecca Shore, Untitled (18-01), 2018, acrylic on linen, 24 x 20 in.

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Rebecca Shore, Untitled (20-01), 2020, acrylic on linen, 16 x 12 in.

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Installation view, Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Ann Pibal, CGBTZ, 2021, acrylic on aluminum, 14 x 17 1/4 in.

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Ann Pibal, EVRBT, 2021, acrylic on aluminum, 16 3/4 x 12 3/4 in.

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Installation view, Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Julia Fish, Study for Threshold - Plan : [ las meninas ] [ spectrum : east to west over grey ], 2018, gouache on paper, 11 x 30 in. framed

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Sanou Oumar, 6/20/20, 2020, pen on paper board, 40 x 32 in.

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Chris Domenick, The Approach, 2021, collage, colored pencil, paper, milk paint, flocking, wood, artist's frame, museum glass, 12 x 18 x 2 in.

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Chris Domenick, Sphere, 2021, silkscreen on board, mat board, wood, textured glass 23 x 25 x 2 in.

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Chris Domenick, Fin, 2021, leather, stain, wood, book cloth, museum glass, 17 x 15 x 1 in.

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Installation view, Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Installation view, Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Installation view, Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Barbara Takenaga, Two Shadows, 2021, acrylic on panel, 10 x 8 in.

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Barbara Takenaga, Nebulae, 2021, acrylic on panel, 9 x 12 in.

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Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, Liminal Spaces, 2020, collage and encaustic medium on panel, 36 x 24 in.

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Works by Sean Sullivan in Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Heat Wave, 2021, oil, velvet, charcoal, copper wire and thread on paper, 46 x 16 x 3 in.

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Works by Anna Kunz in Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Swell Breaker, 2019, oil on canvas, 24 x 17 in.

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Roger White, The Swimmers I, 2021, oil on linen, 13 x 16 in.

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Installation view, Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Works by Hideyo Okamura in Feelings Are Facts, Poker Flats, Williamstown, Mass., July 31 - Sept 6, 2021

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Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, Calm, 2021, collage and encaustic medium on panel, 8 x 6 in.

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Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, Coexisting Systems, 2020, collage and encaustic medium on panel, 8 x 8 in.