Exhibit: Lineage

As an artist, my upbringing, heritage and family history have long served as inspirations for my work. Over the years, these founding motivations have compounded, evolved, mutated and combined to form new pathways, leading to new ideas. “Lineage,” not only traces my family history and how it has come to affect my work, but it also pinpoints the origins of thoughts and motifs that have recurred in my work since childhood. It charts the development of an artist, the creative process and the transformation of ideas from the first seeds of curiosity to tangible works of art. – Haley Bassett

The show comprises 50-plus works, spanning several mediums including oil paintings, charcoal, watercolor, ceramics, natural materials, photographs and ink drawings. It includes works from Bassett’s early childhood, as well as found objects, references, books, personal belongings, studies and notebooks.

The composition of these varied objects in the space provide a peek behind the curtain, as it were, to the process of creativity and inspiration, highlighting the unstructured and unsuspecting ways that ideas form and build off of each other. Lineage runs counter to the narrative that artists exist in vacuums of lone genius, and that their work resides only in a product of a painting. It provides an open and candid access point to the beauty of process, not only as it relates to ancestry, but in the way we develop, hold to and understand our narratives of personal truth.
Island Mountain Arts is incredibly grateful to be hosting Lineage through our Summer season, beginning June 30th with a gallery opening from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. The gallery will be open Wednesday through Sunday until August 22nd. Indoor capacities will be in accordance with the guidelines from the PHO.