Blue Hour Artist Feature: Dylan Hausthor
BLUE HOUR
November 4 – December 21, 2022
Candela Gallery presents Blue Hour, a group exhibition inspired by seasonal depression, featuring photographic works by Granville Carroll, Peter Cochrane, Heather Evans Smith, Dylan Hausthor, Galina Kurlat, Raymond Thompson Jr, and Em White.
DYLAN HAUSTHOR
what the rain might bring. Archival Pigment Print, 30 x 40 inches, Unframed. Edition 3 of 5. SHOP >
Dylan Hausthor's large, black and white prints create grand, peculiar moments among the many works of swirling color and process. The featured images are part of a project and upcoming monograph entitled what the rain might bring. The title is a nod to a mushroom identification guide by mycologist David Arora. Hausthor utilizes flash and often imperfect equipment, creating images that are intuitive and experimental.
what the rain might bring is a cross-disciplinary project that explores the complexities of storytelling, faith, folklore, and the inherent queerness of the natural world.
I was recently visiting my hometown and stopped to fill up my car with gas. I noticed a woman sitting outside the gas station drinking coffee and recognized her as my old ballet teacher. I sat down next to her and we caught up. She had been going blind for the decade since I last saw her. She had fallen out of love, started growing a garden, and found god. She had a small collection of freshly picked mushrooms next to her and handed me one, saying “mushrooms have no gender, did you know that?"
owl. Archival Pigment Print, 40 x 30 inches, Unframed. Edition 1 of 5. SHOP >
bee swarm. Archival Pigment Print, 40 x 30 inches, Unframed. Edition 2 of 5. SHOP >
Small-town gossip, relationships to the land, the mysteries of wildlife, the drama of humanity, and the unpredictability of human spectacle inspire the stories in these images. I’m fascinated by the instability of storytelling and hope to enable character and landscape to act as gossip in their own right: cross-pollinating and synthesizing. Cultural systems, communities bound by belief, ruralism, the ghosts that haunt landscapes, examining the traditions of folk stories and disentangling their colonial narratives are what drive these installations, images, and videos.
mennonites. Archival Pigment Print, 30 x 40 inches, Unframed. Edition 2 of 5. SHOP >
Dylan is a teacher, mushroom farmer, and multi-disciplinary artist, working within fields of photography, video, writing, and bookmaking.
They received their BFA with Honors from Maine College of Art and MFA from Yale University where they were awarded the John Ferguson Weir Award. They are a 2019 recipient of a Nancy Graves fellowship for visual artists, runner-up for the Aperture Portfolio Prize, nominated for Prix Pictet 2021, a W. Eugene Smith Grant finalist, a recipient of the Ellis-Beauregard grant and residency, 2021 Hariban Award Honorable Mention, 2021 Penumbra Foundation resident, 2022 Light Work resident, and the winner of Burn Magazine’s Emerging Photographer’s Fund. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally, and they have three books in the permanent collection at MoMA. They founded the art publication imprint Wilt Press in the spring of 2015.
