PONY COCOON AT FALSE FLAG
Solo show, False Flag, NY
Feb 23 - March 24, 2019
PRESS RELEASE –False Flag presents, PONY COCOON, a selection of new work by VLM. Working across video, sculpture, & performance, VLMinterrogates the relationship between physical & psychic structures. Conceived, scored, edited, produced, & performed in its entirety by the artist, the show’s titular video piece, PONY COCOON, employs an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary to conjure a surreal yet familiar dreamscape. Populated by VLM’s ‘Business Witch’ persona, a luna moth, & a ponytail, the film unpacks a range of cultural associations related to the butterfly: from joyful transformation to deathly harbinger. The original soundscape is composed from field recordings of Texas thunderstorms, corporate conference hotels, a Dewalt drill, & a single moth emerging from a cocoon. Three meticulously polished marble sculptures extend motifs of the projected video into immediate, tangible form. Carved from the same aesthetic language, they are paradoxically cryptic & literal, conceptual & hand-built. Created by VLM at the historic West Rutland Marble Quarry (during a fellowship at The Vermont Carving Studio and Sculpture Center), they serve both as uncanny totems & material embodiments of the familiar. PONY COCOON furthers Virginia Lee Montgomery’s enduring inquiry into the link between material & mind - expanding its scale & context. Her alchemical voice is both idiosyncratic & clear. Through her unexpected fusion of references, symbols, & histories, VLM offers a singularly cerebral & seductive vision.

EXHIBITION IMAGES



EXHIBITION WORKS
• PONY COCOON. Digital 4k video; 05:05, 2019.
• MARBLE PONYTAIL I. Sculpture; Stone, string. 15" x 3" x 15", 2019.
• MARBLE PONYTAIL II. Sculpture; Stone, string. 35" x 5" x 35", 2019.
• MARBLE PONYTAIL II. Sculpture; Stone, string. 35" x 5" x 35", 2019.
• MARBLE MOON (Egg sack). Sculpture; Stone, 28" x 38" x 18", 2019.
• GLITCH COINS . Sculpture; Coins, copper, 1" x 1" x 5", 2019.

EXHIBITION PRESS

• VLM Interview: Image Culture - Podcast, Interviewed by William Jess Laird, 2019.
• Virginia L. Montgomery | ARTSPACE | 7 Artists To Watch in 2019, Artspace, 2019.

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