HOLDING

Kerry Downey + E Tubergen

October  9th  – December 4th, 2026

Opening Friday  October  9th, 6 - 8 PM

Performance at 6 PM

HOLDING is a two-person collaborative exhibition of paper works, sculpture, video, and performance by Kerry Downey and E Tubergen.  The artists’ friendship is the catalyst and container for making new work in the aftermath of ET’s breast cancer. The show holds space for two divergent practices – KD’s energized prolificacy and obsessive marking meets ET’s deliberate craftsmanship and material specificity. KD expounds, ET distills. Both artists create bodily immediacy through tactility and scale, invoking the viewer’s physicality. 

Heavily worked papers hang from iron brackets. A 50 foot collage is dragged down the street and rolled on a rubber cylinder then braced on the wall. A video documents their process; actions that function as performance and play. ET crumples and wads KD’s drawings then straps them to a stretcher on wheels. A matrix of relief shapes is used to make a rubber cast and is also used as a surface for sanding drawings and making prints. Repetitions accrue, as if circling a feeling they can’t put their finger on, like a tongue to a sore. Their formal and relational gestures create interdependencies between mediums and modes of working, and make visible their efforts of care. Their friendship holds space for destruction, obfuscation, grief, and uncertainty. HOLDING celebrates present participles, helping verbs, and ongoing actions. How are we being held? How are we holding on? 

Related Events:

November 1st , 3:30 - 5 PM

Miller Oberman + Kerry Downey 

Workshop and conversation 

December 4, 3:30 - 5 PM

Ren Loren Britton + Kerry Downey + E Tubergen 

Closing event