2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition: Krystyny Vandenberg

	Krystyny Vandenberg Installation View
	Krystyny Vandenberg Installation View
	Krystyny Vandenberg How are you holding up?
	Krystyny Vandenberg How are you holding up? #4 thread, hand-me-down jacket, embroidery hoop 27’’ x 14’’
	Krystyny Vandenberg How are you holding up? #2 thread, hand-me-down jacket, embroidery hoop 19’’ x 9.5’’
	Krystyny Vandenberg Something Will Have to Explode acrylic on canvas, thread, AIDA fabric, charcoal, pen 40.44’’ x 54’’
	Krystyny Vandenberg Moving Out acrylic on canvas, thread, AIDA fabric 40.44’’ x 54’’
	Krystyny Vandenberg An all too Quick Year acrylic on canvas, thread, AIDA fabric, charcoal, pen 40.44’’ x 54’’
	Krystyny Vandenberg Isn't it a Pity acrylic on canvas, thread, AIDA fabric 72’’ x 96’’

About the Installation

Alone With You

“I'd give my body to be back again In the rest of the room”

The Bolsky Gallery is pleased to present Alone With You, a thesis exhibition by Krystyny Vandenberg. Her newest work includes a combination of paintings and embroidered textiles.

Vandenberg’s work focuses on people and their lived experiences. Her practice is about connection and employs the use of painting and traditional textile craft to further delve into and research the unique relationships she has with those closest to her. Alone With You includes paintings on unstretched canvas with collaged cross-stitched fabric along with a series of found textiles which had been gifted to her by family and friends over the past five years.

Vandenberg presents pieces that show the interior lives of her friends and former confidants. They introduce a look into their personal homes, identities, and belongings but are also a snapshot of a larger, young generation, unsure of their place in the world. Each painting is its own room, the figure blending in with their flattened living spaces and the textiles form their own domestic space, painfully devoid of any figure. The title references a song by Sufjan Stevens (“To Be Alone With You”) which emphasizes the suffering that happens through longing for connection. The exhibition explores this liminal space between presence and absence and the difficulty that comes with connecting to others.

A dreamlike scene is created, something in between the familiar and the unknown. The handmade and the digital. The domestic is safe but also alienating. Repetition and echoing motifs with everyday objects can be seen throughout the works creating a sense of familiarity and déjà vu. It is a celebration of the mundane wrought with cautious optimism.

Krystyny Vandenberg (b. 1995, California) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. She received her BFA from Biola University in 2017 and will complete her MFA at Otis College of Art and Design in the spring of 2022.