An Archive of Loose Leaves is an exhibition based around questions of the influence and hierarchy of memory within contemporary art. Featuring the works of Rachel Lin Weaver, Joann Quiñones, Cristina Molina, Allison Janae Hamilton, April Dauscha, & matthew anthony batty. This exhibit hopes to explore how artists address silences in the traditional archive or collection, as well as investigating how ephemera and oral history influence a reflection on the past. The works curated go between physical material and digital elements in order to fully realize their concerns at hand. Using collected material, passed down objects and narratives, the works begin to create a new archive of sorts that no longer relies on a privileged lineage. Each artist works to ensure their space in a collective cultural memory that is at once collapsing and being built.

An Archive of Loose Leaves is presented by Lee Gallery, & Clemson Visual Arts in partnership with Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville. TSA GVL is an artist collective based in Greenville, SC and is a part of Network of nationwide sites. As a 501c3 non-profit organization they work to build programming that connects contemporary art to their communities. As a partner with Clemson University and Lee Gallery, TSA GVL has provided support in programming and community building endeavors that connect to the history and archives of our region and their use in creative communities of the upstate.

Participating Artists:

Rachel Lin Weaver Joann Quiñones Cristina Molina
Allison Janae Hamilton April Dauscha matthew anthony batty

Information on TSA GVL:

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) was founded in 2019 and is the newest part of the Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA) network of artist-run spaces and joins locations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Our goal is to collectively bring people together, expand connections and create community through artist-initiated exhibitions, projects, and curatorial opportunities. We seek to build an ethos of cooperative achievement in the visual arts, creating

the physical and emotional space for artists to show their work and exchange ideas on their own terms. Our artist-run model expands the artist’s role beyond that of studio practitioner to include the roles of curator, critic, and community developer and provides an alternate model to the conventions of the current commercial art market. TSA GVL will specifically focus on connecting the art communities in Greenville and the greater Southeast to the global art world. TSA was founded in 2009 in Philadelphia, is a 501c3 non-profit organization, and is a 2021 recipient of a grant from the Warhol Foundation.

Visiting Artists in support of An Archive of Loose Leaves:

Joann Quiñones
Jan 27th & 28th 2022
Artist Talk and Studio Visits

Joann Quiñones is a mixed media artist, working primarily in fibers and ceramics, who creates figurative work in order to explore African American and Caribbean history, as well as Afro-Latinx identity. She was selected an Emerging Artist of 2020 by Ceramics Monthly, was a Manifest Gallery Annual Prize Finalist, and received an Honorable Mention for the James Renwick Alliance Chrysalis Award. Her work has been shown nationally, including in the 2020 NCECA Annual Exhibition, “The Burdens of History”, the Belger Arts Center, and the Akron Arts Museum. She has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. She has had residencies at Vermont Studio Center and was selected for participation this summer at the Arts/Industry Residency in Foundry at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. She currently teaches Sculpture at Alfred University.

April Dauscha & matthew anthony batty
March 3rd & 4th 2022
Paired conversation/artist talks & paired studio visits

Bio (April)
Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, April Dauscha, received her BFA in fashion design at the International Academy of Design and Technology and her MFA in fiber from Virginia Commonwealth University. April is on the board of directors for the Surface Design Association (SDA) and is one of the founding members of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL). She has been represented by Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia and has recently exhibited as part of the Uneasy Beauty: Discomfort in Contemporary Adornment exhibition at the Fuller Craft Museum and as part of the, Adornment: Beauty in Excess at the Walton Arts Center. Her work has also been featured on art blogs such as Beautiful Decay, Ignant and Issue No.206. She is currently spearheading a brand-new fiber arts program as instructor and area head at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina.

Bio (matthew)
matthew anthony batty was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in and around Florida. their artistic practice is as diverse as the landscapes and ecologies they are inspired by. they

are a transdisciplinary artist working across such mediums as video, sculpture, sound, social interventions, and image-making. matthew’s work explores themes of dark ecology, the manufactured division of nature and culture through myth making in modern N. America, and environmental justice in the anthropocene/plasticene/capitalcene. Utilizing the muddiness of the in between to create new visions of coexistence and speculative ecologies of naturecultures, matthew’s work explores fragmented moments within the anthropocene, and hyperobjects like global warming in order to offer a way to navigate out and towards what Donna Harraway calls the chthulucene, an epoch where it is acknowledged that hum_n and nonhum_n are inextricably linked.

matthew anthony batty received a BFA in Studio Art at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL and their MFA in Studio Art at Indiana University. batty has received recognition for their practice through Grants–In–Aid while at Indiana University, and has been selected as an artist-in-residence at The Birdsell Projects in South Bend, IN. matthew was invited as an artist-in-residence with The Weight of Mountains, a nomadic video art program, which spent the winter in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada making work for a solo show at Black Vulture Project, in Paoli, Indiana. matthew, most recently was commissioned by the New Orleans Film Festival to create an installation for the festival, which was funded in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation. batty also explores curatorial work as an extension of their art practice. They have curated exhibitions such as Extended Family at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. They have also curated experimental venues such as The Breezeway Gallery, The Fuller Projects, and in 2018 he was an artist/curator-in-residence with Black Vulture Project, focusing on quarterly experimental poetry/video/performance events. matthew anthony batty recently was working with the Center for Rural Engagement at Indiana University as an artist advocate facilitating discussions with rural communities to build relationships in order to support the community with art programming.

Panel Discussion : Feb 7th 2022

A consortium of regionally based experts will participate in a panel discussion focusing on the contemporary influence of systems and archives in a communities history. Interrogating how institutions and creative production in the contemporary struggles to address the role of memory in a community. This panel will consider broad themes while examining the current points of inflection in the Upstate region of South Carolina, and how their work and fields influence the understanding of community memory. This panel will b e moderated by curator Rachel de Cuba. This presentation is presented by Lee Gallery, Clemson University Art Department in partnership with Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville.