Contingency
June 26 - July 24, 2020
St. Louis, MO — Monaco is pleased to present Contingency featuring Meghan Grubb and Jessica Hunt. The exhibition opens with new health and safety protocols on Friday, June 26 and runs through July 24. Please join us for an opening event from 6:00 – 9:30 pm Friday, June 26.
At once casually familiar and deeply unsettled, Contingency ushers the viewer into a modestly furnished dwelling-like interior space. Meticulously assembled, the room proposes a mundane sense of urgency, as if the space itself is dipped in the overlapping and perpetual sirens of a five-alarm fire, the sounds of which pulse long enough to fade to a dull background buzz in your eyes and ears. It's a state of constant stress, a world in flames, a constitutional crisis, a seedy strip club, a global pandemic, your living room.
Contingency is the product of collaboration between artists Meghan Grubb and Jessica Hunt.
50% of artwork sales from Contingency will be donated to the Loveland Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing opportunity and healing to communities of color, especially Black women and girls.
Meghan Grubb is a visual artist based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her practice explores a range of subjects including wilderness structures, daylight rhythms, recursive spaces, and un/natural disasters. The resulting physical work ranges from immersive installation to sculptural objects – each outcome disclosing unease between humans and the physical spaces that we inhabit. Grubb's work has been exhibited at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (Oslo, Norway), the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Heaven Gallery (Chicago), the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (Saint Louis), and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids, MI). She has completed residencies at Wassaic Project (NY), ACRE (Chicago), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Paul Artspace (Florissant, MO), and has received the American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship (2012-2013), Regional Arts Commission Artists Fellowship (2015), Creative Stimulus Award (2015), Alice Cole Award (2015), recent nominations for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2014) and Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2015 and 2016), and Regional Arts Commission Support Grant (2015 and 2018). Grubb is a founding member of Monaco, and received her MFA Art + Design from the University of Michigan in 2012, and her BA History + Studio Art from Wellesley College in 2005.
Jessica Lynn Hunt is a visual artist born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where she presently resides. Her practice explores interpersonal relationships and individual experiences through the use of sculptural form, digital photography, and installation. Her research focuses on how we create, maintain, or destroy our relationships with others, and how certain experiences come to define who we are as people. Hunt received her MFA in 2018 from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and currently teaches sculpture at John Burroughs School. She is the Assistant Director for the Bonsack Gallery in Ladue, Missouri. Hunt has exhibited work both regionally and nationally. Her public sculpture Bound is currently installed at the Scovill Sculpture Park in Illinois. Most recently, she received the Regional Arts Commission Support Grant in 2019. She is represented by Var West Gallery in Milwaukee.