About Limbo and Other Conversations
Limbo and other Conversations is a collaborative dialogue between two artists as they encourage and challenge one another’s practice. Christina Shurts and Nathan Huff, as studio mates, began an intentional dialogue 3 months ago as they fed challenges to one another and reflected on their practices through journaling, sharing images, and fostering a creative conversation with these works. In both artists’ practice exists a similar interest in personal history, storytelling, and warping of memory.
Through combining found images of hierarchical structures, memory, and personal images of past vacation homes and travel Christina Shurts’ oil paintings and drawings create fantastical scenes that are emphasized through paint handling and expressive drawing. Huff blends disparate imagery of wild animals and rustic home life in unforeseen combinations that evoke humor and uneasiness, the familiar and the surreal. Together they hope to offer the viewer an invitation into their conversations.
