a 2-person exhibition by Don Eyles and Kristen Mallia

April 21–May 30

Opening Reception, Thursday, April 24, 5–7

Gallery Hours: Saturdays, from 1–5 pm, and by appointment

please email us at exhibitiondirt@gmail.com

Guests are invited to bring household kitchen food and plant scraps to the gallery, where they will be 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 recordkeeping, 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.