Clara DeGalan and Ryan Herberholz: Hyperlocal Color

Work by Stamps alumni Clara DeGalan (BFA ​’02) and Ryan Herberholz (BFA ​’12) is featured in Hyperlocal Color, an exhibition exploring landscapes and interiors at the intersection of late capitalism, survival, and resilience. The exhibition is on view through February 16, 2025 at Highland Park’s Annex Gallery, with an artist’s talk scheduled for Sunday, February 9 at 2pm. 

A backyard, a thrift store, a stand of trees, a bunker: rope, celestial bodies, shelving, carefully selected color. Animals migrating across the boundaries of human-demarcated spaces. The essentials of human life- shelter, currency, tools, food, spirituality- mound, burrow, re-contextualize and disappear as their likenesses are reconfigured (only slightly), opening a path through the uncanny valley on the razor’s edge of beauty and horror.

“Hyperlocal Color,” an exhibition featuring the work of Martha Mysko, Clara DeGalan, and Ryan Herberholz, explores landscapes and interiors that converge at the vanishing point of late Capitalism and its fallout with the drumbeat of a wounded, resilient Earth. The piling of organic form facsimilies and objects that signal coziness in rectilinear Midwestern thrift shops corresponds unsettlingly to the stockpiling of diy weaponry and ​“Deep Evolution” subterranean survival temples. Meanwhile, more-than-human relatives move along their own paths, carry their own histories and dreams into our trembling civic centers and psyches as we carry our dark medicine into theirs. Even on this razor’s edge, there are glimmers of beauty- in the lovingly curated shelf of well-touched artifacts, in the light of the evening sun illuminating a mushroom cap, in the absurdity of human endeavor against the vastness of time. 

Hyperlocal Color: Martha Mysko, Clara DeGalan, Ryan Herberholz
Exhibition Dates: January 25 — February 16, 2025
Artist Talk: 2pm on Sunday, February 9, 2025
Annex Gallery, 333 Midland St, Highland Park, MI 48203