RULE

July- Aug 2024

Gallery Hours:


Friday, July 19 // 3:00 to 6:00pm

Saturday, July 20 // 10:00am to 2:00pm


Friday, July 26 // 3:00 to 6:00pm

Saturday, July 27 // Walker Art Center Gallery Crawl


Friday, August 2 // 3:00 to 6:00pm

Saturday, August 3 // 10:00am to 2:0opm


Friday, August 9 // 3:00 to 6:00pm

Saturday, August 10 // 10:00am to 2:00pm


Friday, August 16 // 3:00 to 6:00pm

Saturday, August 17 // 10:00am to 2:00pm


Friday, August 23 // 3:00 to 6:00pm

Saturday, August 24 // 10:00am to 2:00pm


Friday, August 30 // 3:00 to 6:00pm

Saturday, August 31 // 10:00am to 2:00pm


Thursday, September 5 // Performance & Closing Reception


a black and white poster for rule

“TOA Presents and Gelo Shop are pleased to announce RULE, a two-person exhibition featuring new and collaborative works by artists Vernon Vanderwood and Miles Mendenhall.


Guided by process, repetitive pursuits in movement and material, Vanderwood and Mendenhall create kaleidoscopic landscapes of in-betweens. Spiraling thoughts of binary, squares, structure and rules, the works in RULE pose sugar coated questions and suggest ribbon tied answers.


Vernon Vanderwood’s evolving and expansive practice is guided by cycling questions. They equip new processes to more palpably confront inquiries such as What is the expanded body? What is their relationship to the body and to containment? What are the poetic and political potential of material and mark making? How can ecology and identity be lenses for systematic decomposition?


Those explorations compel Vanderwood to play with binaries. In her large-scale works featured in RULE, free expressions in dance and disintegrating mediums are juxtaposed against silk binds and frames.


Over the course of the last decade, Miles Mendenhall has developed a printmaking process that intersects experimental histories of early photography and abstract expressionistic painting. Using gelatin, pigment and photographic chemistry, he creates monoprints that exist between worlds – hallucinogenic fractures where comprehension stutters and swirls.


In RULE, Mendenhall presents large-scale monoprints encased in fractal expanses of an alien shape-language. The untreated wood geometry of the frames composes a formidable presence that is still vulnerable, raw and delicately crafted. Simultaneously historic and futuristic, and symmetrical in their asymmetry, the frames defy their functional classification, not unlike the monoprints they surround.”



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