A Spider and a Flower

Ali Gibbons and Megan Koons

PUTTY'S CORONATION is pleased to announce the opening of A Spider and a Flower, a two-person exhibition featuring tile and fiber works by Ali Gibbons and Megan Koons. The opening will take place on Saturday, July 13th 2024, from 6pm-9pm at 483 17th St, 4B, Brooklyn, NY 11215. The show will be up until August 24th, 2024.

A Spider and a Flower reunites Ali Gibbons and Megan Koons, two artists whose work has been in conversation for many years. Both construct picture-objects that blend abstraction and representation from materials traditionally associated with craft. The resulting images feel at home in putty’s apartment setting, yet their emotional depth quietly transcends this domestic context, exploring with notions of home, nature, otherworldly possibility.

Using the pliability of porcelain as a vehicle for mark making, color, and texture, Ali Gibbons references the classical structures of still life and landscape painting, reinterpreting these artistic traditions through the medium of clay and slip. Self-contained and stoic, these small works are offset by a playfulness in pattern, repetition, and attention to surface. In Gibbon’s work, Images move in and out of representational legibility both collapsing and opening expectations of perspective.

Megan Koons’ fiber work emerges from a contemplative exploration of the mysteries and hidden narratives of the natural world. Her artistic process blends spontaneous, serendipitous actions with deliberate, repetitive gestures, aiming to tap into a subconscious realm where lines and patterns converge into evocative images with a sense of innate familiarity. Embracing a fluidity that transcends traditional boundaries between art, craft, and design, Koons’ work cultivates a spirit of playful experimentation and discovery.

Ali Gibbons is a painter and potter living in Brooklyn, NY and Sharon, CT. She studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago where she received a BFA in 2010.

Megan Koons is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received a BFA 2009.