Elsewhere

Exhibition Dates:
June 20 - August 15, 2025

Opening Reception:
Friday, June 20, 2025, 5:00-9:00pm

Rivalry Projects is thrilled to present Elsewhere, a group exhibition including works by Eleanor Anderson (Portland, ME), Rachelle Bussières (New York, NY), iris yirei hu (Los Angeles, CA), Kyla Kegler (Buffalo, NY), Soo Shin (Chicago, IL), and Carla Weeks (Arrowsic, ME). 

While we sleep, meditate, or daydream, there is space to be occupied outside of the confines of our physical bodies. This exhibition explores what occurs in these liminalities, and includes works that consider topics such as memory, intuition, perception, and processing the momentous transitions that ground growth, aging, and loss. Including painting, sculpture, textiles, and photography the exhibition highlights the individual symbologies of each artist, through which they explore these topics. The exhibition will be on view from June 20 - August 15, 2025.

WORKS

Installation Images

About the ArtistS

Eleanor Anderson (b. 1988) engages in world-making through the process of play and material-errantry. Working predominately in textiles, but also glass, metal, and clay, her practice utilizes craft traditions as a flexible constraint. She collaborates with materials and colors to achieve a coherence and consistency aligned with her intuitive judgment. She looks for openings in the making process where she can ply confident imperfections and deviations, subverting fixed expectations of the tradition or technique at hand. She has exhibited widely with solo exhibitions at the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC, and Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, CO, among many others. Anderson has been awarded residencies at Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood, WA, Windgate Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME, and the Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY) and the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, among others. Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, Philchuck School of Glass Collection, Stanwood, WA, Herman Miller Archive, Zeeland, MI, Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, Carelton College, Northfield, MN, and Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.

Rachelle Bussières (b. 1986) is a Canadian photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. A holder of an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, she has received multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. Her cameraless works explore light’s impact on our psyche, environment, and the universe, drawing inspiration from astronomy, transcendentalism, and the sublime. Bussières has been a finalist for the 2021 Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize and has attended residencies at Brooklyn Darkroom, Banff Centre, Silver Art Projects, Penumbra Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Equivalentbehaviour (London), the International Center for Photography (New York), and Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito), among many other locations. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Le Soleil, La Presse, Hyperallergic, and Lenscratch, to name a few. As the founder of LUMIÈRE NYC, she fosters dialogue between historical and contemporary photography through lumen printing. Bussières splits her time between New York City and Québec City.

iris yirei hu is a multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles who works across painting, installation, intercultural collaborations, writing, and public art. She roots her art practice in processes of material and spiritual transformation, as evidenced in labor intensive pieces and installations that explore the subterranean realms of grief and loss, cycles of life and death, the earthly and the otherworldly, and the infinitely evolving self. Central to her practice is learning from and working across territories and peoples, through which she investigates how geography, kinship, and the sacred are reflected in cultural technologies and ecological practices. Her work intimately probes the sentience in the natural world and the vulnerability in human connection across cultural, geographic, and generational differences, through which she creates fluid and relational ways to understand oneself and others. In 2022, LA Metro commissioned her to design a large-scale mosaic artwork for the future UCLA/Westwood Purple Line Metro Station slated to open for the 2028 Summer Olympics. She has exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA); Center for Arts, Research, and Alliances (New York, NY); Museum of Contemporary Art (Tucson, AZ); Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art (Winnipeg, MB, Canada); John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Francois Ghebaly (Los Angeles, CA); among many other venues. Public art commissions include California State University, Dominguez Hills and We Rise/Art Rise produced by the Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA-LA) and Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), among others.

Kyla Kegler’s (b. 1985) paintings, objects, performances, and films explore themes of fantasy, relationship, pleasure, and purpose. Her films and performances often choreograph groups engaged in tasks that blend emotional and physical labor. Kegler’s practice is informed by her work with Bread and Puppet Theater (Vermont) and her role as co-founder of the underground theater Zuhause (Berlin). She holds an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Art University of Berlin and an MFA in Studio Art from the University at Buffalo. Her past projects include Feel Me, a multi-modal investigation of the mindfulness industry exhibited at Box Gallery, Canisius College, and Big Orbit; The House on Fire Show, a teen web-drama about the climate crisis screened at the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art; Mountains, a puppet soap opera performed at Artpark, Torn Space Theater, and Undercurrent Gallery (Brooklyn); The Frontier, a performance about cults and community; and R.d.f.t.c. (Relationships don’t finish, they change), an installation of video and sculpture exhibited at the Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, NY (2024).

Soo Shin (b. 1981) holds and encapsulates the poetic gestures of bodies and their traces through sculpture. Working in ceramic, brass, concrete, and steel, she examines the realties of distance, displacement, yearning, connection, and loss. Her process often begins with written poetry, words, or terms, which are then formed into sculpture through the placement - geographically and physically - of her own body and gestures. Over the years, Shin’s sculptures have extended beyond her own physicality, to explore cultural systems that affect immigrant bodies – from the forms of the migrant laborer’s to vessels for communion with other selves and versions of home. Shin received a Master in Fine Arts from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Master in Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea. Recent solo exhibitions include (An) Anthology of the Ocean (2024), The Luminary, St. Louis, MO; We, Dandelions (2022), PATRON, Chicago, IL; The Body of A Dreamer (2021), PATRON, Chicago, IL; Paths Between Two Steps (2020), Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL; and A Collection of Tears 2012-Present (2019), Bar 4000, Chicago, IL. Select group exhibitions include Dialogues, PATRON, Chicago, IL; Skin in the Game, Chicago, IL; An Echo, She Is (2020), curated by Ruslana Litchzier, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL; Four Flags (2020), Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL; Into the Future (2020), Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL; Something Blue (2020), LVL3, Chicago, IL; Between Land and Sky: Azadeh Gholizadeh, Luis Romero, and Soo Shin (2019), EVERYBODY, Chicago, IL; and The ANNUAL: Mixtapes for the Next Millennium (2018), curated by Jordan Martins, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL. Shin has completed residences at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; Vermont Studio Center; Art Farm, Marquette, NE; Ox-box, Saugatuck, MI; and Vilchek Foundation Fellowship, MacDowell Colony Artist Residency, Peterborough, NH.

Carla Weeks (b. 1988) is a British-born painter and muralist based in Midcoast Maine. Informed by her personal interactions with both the natural landscape and built environment, she utilizes abstraction to navigate through the physical and emotional experience of place. Employing a distinct shape vocabulary to formally explore color relationships, her paintings articulate the shifting nuances of sensory memory. A self-taught painter, Weeks holds a BA in Art History and a professional background in design that informs both her painting practice and multidisciplinary collaborative projects. She has shown work in Philadelphia, New York City, and across New England. She has held residencies at the Ellis Beauregard Foundation in Rockland, Monson Arts in Monson, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Most recent exhibitions include her first solo museum presentation at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, and a 2-person show at Primary in Miami, FL.