Hole In The Wall

August 22nd—September 26th

16 Adams Street
Kingston, NY

Hole In The Wall features collage and sculpture by Tania Alvarez alongside paintings and works on paper by Tim Doud. Both artists consider the layers of history and meaning embedded within their materials, assembling works that are dynamic and responsive to the world around them. Situated within an uninhabited and decaying space, this exhibition reflects on the traces we leave behind—how our presence gathers, lingers, and recedes from places we can never fully possess.

Tania Alvarez explores the complex, layered histories of homes, where the traces of unknown lives intertwine with her own. Using materials found and salvaged from her house, Alvarez examines memory through physical remnants, creating works that record time and reflect on how we both shape and are shaped by the spaces we inhabit. Born in Spain and raised in the United States, she draws on a lifelong feeling of existing between places, embracing disorientation and in-betweenness as central to her practice and as the most honest lens through which to make her work.

Tim Doud constructs, reassembles, and reproduces materials to explore questions of identity, authorship, and commodification. Here, Doud presents a series of splattered abstractions that straddle the line between control and chaos. The initial compositions are created through moments of raw, intuitive expression before being meticulously reproduced by the artist. In this way, Doud's practice continually folds back on itself—examining, reconfiguring, and referencing its own visual language until the boundary between the authentic and the manufactured begins to dissolve.