Alison Bradley Projects is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, featuring work by Carolina Jiménez and Grace Sachi Troxell, curated by Cayla Blachman and Olivia Breibart. This exhibition brings together the work of these two emerging artists, examining the fluidity of their common concepts across two disparate mediums.

Carolina Jiménez (b. California, 1991) and Grace Sachi Troxell (b. Illinois, 1991) work in traditional craft media in pursuit of contemporary expression. Working in textiles and ceramic respectively, each artist distinctively approaches these historied practices. Both elevate the potential of their medium, creating monuments to both personal and ubiquitous histories of art, labor, and technique.

This exhibition reveals the connections between these two artists, as they investigate heritage, the body, and memory. Working in abstraction with concrete ties to the physical world, Jiménez and Troxell contemplate and reclaim their ancestry and selfhood. In this two person exhibition, the body is transmuted into clay and textile as new forms emerge through material confrontation and manipulation.

Carolina Jiménez uses the language of abstract expressionism to create her monumental woven paintings. Working within these canons of craft and art history, Jiménez universalizes personal narratives through color and composition. By harnessing the materiality of her medium, Jiménez creates juxtapositions that lay bare the labor of her own process, mirroring that of generations of artisans. In doing so, she captures sensations both eternal and fleeting, creating an impression of the past through both the making and viewing experience in the present.

Grace Sachi Troxell similarly works with multiple modes of representation, creating large-scale sculptures in ceramic and steel. Troxell uses clay as a vehicle to explore her mixed ancestry; the medium itself becoming a form of generational memory. Like Jiménez, she touches on the functional history of ceramics, bringing vessel-like forms to a human scale. In their physical presence, the pieces act as figures themselves, embodying the narrative that their amalgam parts represent.

Both Jiménez and Troxell, entrenched within traditional artistic processes, acknowledge history while emerging anew through their individual approaches. Together, these works address the ways in which the body holds ancestral memory, prompting a meditation on physicality, personal narrative, and broader histories. Alison Bradley Projects is delighted to introduce these emerging artists to a wider audience.