Rustle up a Plume of Silt

Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to announce Rustle up a Plume of Silt, a solo exhibition by 2023-24 BOLT Resident Abraham Cone.

Rustle up a Plume of Silt culminates fourteen months of image-making undertaken during Cone’s BOLT Residency. Works span large-format painting, paper-making, etching, collage, and garland making. Wafting tendrils gust across media and between works, joining materials Cone has gleaned and held to his bosom: desiccated plants accumulate into handmade papers; walnut hulls are fermented into inks; sandstone is mulled into paint. In the fusing of vegetable and mineral pigments with hide glues and oils, there is also a binding together of sacred friendships, and relations with the more than human.
Featured in the exhibition is a small edition of etchings, printed in collaboration with Pigeonhole Press on paper made with plant fibers gathered across the midwest.

The opening reception will be on May 3 from 5-8pm.
Image: Abraham Cone, Into Glacial Lakes; Out of Gravel Mines, 2023, Oil paint, walnut ink, watercolor, hide glue on linen on panel, 8” x 10” x 3”