Dirt

“Dirt,” a 2-person exhibition by Don Eyles and Kristen Mallia, will be on view at Gallery at 249 A Street in Boston’s Fort Point, from April 21–May 30, with an Opening Reception on Thursday, April 24 from 5–7.

The gallery is open on Saturdays, from 1–5pm and by appointment (please email us at exhibitiondirt@gmail.com). Guests are invited to bring household kitchen food/plant scraps to the gallery as part of a collaborative on-site composting installation that will evolve over the course of the exhibition.

“Dirt” merges each artist’s distinct approach to archiving concepts of landscape. Photographic grids, printed matter, and multimedia installation encourage the examination of home-composting rituals, meticulous record-keeping, and documentation of a continually evolving urban/domestic landscape. “Dirt” invites viewers to contemplate themes of consumption, collection, and transformation within their own “home” sites, and the way our intimate relationships with place inform our collective histories.

Don Eyles is a photographer, builder of floating objects, computer scientist and author based in Boston, whose work inhabits the zone where art and engineering are indistinguishable. Kristen Mallia is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist and educator exploring the evolution and accumulation of behaviors and structures over time through ritual, collection, site-specific research, and self-publishing.

Thank you to Lomi for generously donating a Lomi 2 home composting machine for this exhibition. The Gallery at 249 A is supported by a grant from the South Boston Community Development Foundation.