November 17 – December 17, 2022
Opening reception: Thursday, Nov. 17, 7–10pm
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment
Open by appointment only on Thanksgiving weekend
Day & Night Projects is proud to present Athens, GA artist Jaime Bull’s solo exhibition The Stump Hole. Bull shares her homage to the Florida Panhandle’s eroding beaches, and the wild forms of clinging twisted trees that are slowly being washed out to sea. Trees, bodies, and bathing suits are reimagined through lycra and elastic as soft sculpture. A champagne fountain bubbles in front of an immersive video experience of the artist, as she frolics with the stump and the surf. Part bacchanalian funeral, part celebration of the female body, Bull’s desire to connect with our earth and sea delivers a powerful performance.
The Stump Hole will open with a free, public reception on Thursday, November 17, 7–10pm. Viewing hours are Fridays and Saturdays,12–5pm, or by appointment (and by appointment only on Thanksgiving weekend).
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Jaime Bull builds a cast of sparkly clad forms that embody a strong, sexy, dangerous female presence. She is a collector and uses found, repurposed materials in her work to reference the body with a feminist perspective. Spending her time dumpster diving at the recycling center or scouring Goodwill to amass second-hand tube tops and sequined prom dresses, Bull’s sculptures have the rhinestone aesthetic of a bedazzled jean jacket or a Mardi Gras float. She examines and questions our relationship with the environment by highlighting a preoccupation with hoarding mass quantities of “stuff.”
Bull received her MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Georgia, Athens in 2013. She has exhibited in Atlanta with the Atlanta Contemporary, Whitespace, Day & Night Projects, Camayuhs, Hathaway Gallery and at the Airport in Terminal E. Regionally, she has shown work at the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Auburn University, Albany Museum, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Tiger Strikes Astroid in Greenville, SC and the COOP Gallery in Nashville. She is a Hambidge Center and Vermont Studio School Fellow, attended a two-month residency at the Bernheim Arboretum in Louisville, KY and was an Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Studio Artist in Residence from 2016-2019. She was featured in and on the cover of the 219th edition of Ambit Magazine, London. She currently lives in Athens, GA and teaches art classes at the University of Georgia.
